Kotlin Compact
Kotlin Compact
for Java professionals
About the Book
In compact chapters, concentrating on the essentials, you'll get to know Kotlin within a few afternoons or some subway rides, and you'll soon be able to use it to write your own programs and apps.
"Kotlin Compact" is officially endorsed by JetBrains, the creators of Kotlin itself, on their "books about Kotlin" page!
As the title suggests, "Kotlin Compact" is not explicitly an all-encompassing work on Kotlin. Rather, it focuses on the necessary foundations and best features Kotlin has to offer, and which are most valuable when getting started with Kotlin development.
Table of Contents
- About the author
- Quick facts about Kotlin
- Understanding Kotlin code
- Declaring variables
- Classes and objects
- Properties of classes
- Java interoperability
- No semicolon necessary
- No new necessary
- No checked exceptions, runtime exceptions only
- No primitives (int, float, …)
- Null safety
- Equality and identity
- Default arguments
- Named arguments
- String interpolation
- Extension functions
- Scoping functions
- if expression
- Operator overloading
- Kotlin has much more to offer
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