Nowadays, improved application development does not just mean building better performing applications. It has become crucial to find improved ways of writing code. Kotlin is a language that helps developers build amazing Android applications easily and effectively. This book discusses Kotlin features in context of Android development. It demonstrates how common examples that are typical for Android development, can be simplified using Kotlin. It also shows all the benefits, improvements and new possibilities provided by this language.
The book is divided in three modules that show the power of Kotlin and teach you how to use it properly. Each module present features in different levels of advancement. The first module covers Kotlin basics. This module will lay a firm foundation for the rest of the chapters so you are able to read and understand most of the Kotlin code. The next module dives deeper into the building blocks of Kotlin, such as functions, classes, and function types. You will learn how Kotlin brings many improvements to the table by improving common Java concepts and decreasing code verbosity. The last module presents features that are not present in Java. You will learn how certain tasks can be achieved in simpler ways thanks to Kotlin.

Functional Kotlin by Mario Arias and Rivu Chakraborty. Kotlin supports many of the popular and advanced technical and useful features of functional languages. Functional programming makes your applications faster, improves performance, and increases your productivity. The book covers the A-Z of functional programming in Kotlin, as well as, an in-depth look at the Arrow library for Functional Programming in Kotlin. Mario Arias is one of the authors of the Arrow library, and Rivu Chakraborty is an experienced Developer and Author of multiple Kotlin books, this book is the go-to resource if you want to master Functional Programming in Kotlin and Arrow.

Discover android programming and web development by understanding the concepts of Kotlin Programming
The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language.
The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin.
This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java.

Learn how to make Android development much faster using a variety of Kotlin features, from basics to advanced, to write better quality code.
Nowadays, improved application development does not just mean building better performing applications. It has become crucial to find improved ways of writing code. Kotlin is a language that helps developers build amazing Android applications easily and effectively. This book discusses Kotlin features in context of Android development. It demonstrates how common examples that are typical for Android development, can be simplified using Kotlin. It also shows all the benefits, improvements and new possibilities provided by this language.

If at any time you have tried to investigate on your own, then you are aware of the amount of time we sometimes spend to find the solution we are looking for.
Thanks to this book, you’ll skip that intermediate step and start enjoying the language and get the most out of it from your first line of code.
With Kotlin for Android Developers you’ll learn..

Familiarize yourself with all of Kotlin's features with this in-depth guide
About This Book
*  Get a thorough introduction to Kotlin
*  Learn to use Java code alongside Kotlin without any hiccups
*  Get a complete overview of null safety, Generics, and many more interesting features

Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. Kotlin is a language that helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way.
The book will begin by giving you strong grasp of the Kotlin features in context of Android development and its APIs to further taking steps towards building stunning applications for Android. It will show you the environment setup and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the coming applications covered in the upcoming chapters. The book will also introduce you to using the Android Studio IDE which plays an integral role in Android Development.
We will use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object oriented code, safety aspects and type parameterization, testing, concurrency which will guide you to write Kotlin's code to production. We will also show how we can integrate Kotlin in any existing Android project.

Write More Robust and Scalable Android Apps with Kotlin.

The Kotlin language brings state-of-the-art programming techniques and constructs to Android development. Kotlin for Android App Development will help you rapidly understand Kotlin’s principles and techniques, apply Kotlin in production app development, integrate Kotlin with existing Java code, and plan a migration to Kotlin, if you choose.

Develop Android apps with Kotlin to create more elegant programs than the Java equivalent. This book covers the various aspects of a modern Android app that professionals are expected to encounter. There are chapters dealing with all the important aspects of the Android platform, including GUI design, file- and data-handling, coping with phone calls, multimedia apps, interaction with location and mapping services, monetizing apps, and much more.

Язык Kotlin предлагает выразительный синтаксис, мощную и понятную систему типов, великолепную поддержку и бесшовную совместимость с существующим кодом на Java, богатый выбор библиотек и фреймворков. Kotlin может компилироваться в байт-код Java, поэтому его можно использовать везде, где используется Java, включая Android. А благодаря эффективному компилятору и маленькой стандартной библиотеке Kotlin практически не привносит накладных расходов.
Данная книга научит вас пользоваться языком Kotlin для создания высококачественных приложений. Написанная создателями языка – разработчиками в компании JetBrains, – эта книга охватывает такие темы, как создание предметно-ориентированных языков, функциональное программирование в JVM, совместное использование Java и Kotlin и др.
Издание предназначено разработчикам, владеющим языком Java и желающим познакомиться и начать эффективно работать с Kotlin.