KOTLIN - Quick Start
KOTLIN - Quick Start
Version: 2.0 - Date: 04.2021
About the Book
Info
Kotlin is new modern programming language (similar to SwiftUI).
It is used for building Android Applications using Android Studio IDE and Jetpack Compose declarative UI language.
Book content
This book is collection of standalone tutorials.
Each tutorial contains minimum amount of code needed to explain specific functionality.
Each tutorial has minimum amount of supporting text making emphasis on the code example to do the explaining.
Exceptions are tutorials that explain main concepts behind the language or framework which require different approach.
Table of Contents
- 1. Quick Start
- 1.1 Create Application
- 1.1.1 Online Compiler
- 1.1.2 Android Studio Scratch File
- 2. Main Concepts
- 2.1 Data Types
- 2.1.1 Literals
- 2.1.2 Scalars
- 2.1.3 Collections
- 2.2 Variables
- 2.2.1 Constants
- 2.2.2 Variables
- 2.2.3 Optionals
- 2.3 Basic Syntax
- 2.3.1 Comments
- 2.3.2 Print to Console
- 2.3.3 Statements - Conditional
- 2.3.4 Statements - Loop
- 2.3.5 Statements - Jump
- 2.4 Structures
- 2.4.1 Objects
- 2.4.2 Classes
- 2.4.3 Fields
- 2.4.4 Properties
- 2.4.5 Interfaces
- 2.4.6 Extensions
- 2.4.7 Delegation
- 2.4.8 Objects vs Classes
- 2.4.9 Fields vs Properties
- 2.5 Functions
- 2.5.1 Function Declaration - Named
- 2.5.2 Function Declaration - Anonymous
- 2.5.3 Lambda Expressions
- 2.5.4 Inline Functions
- 2.5.5 Function vs Lambda vs Closure
- 3. Summary
- 3.1 Data Types
- 3.2 Variables
- 3.3 Basic Syntax
- 3.4 Structures
- 3.5 Functions
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