Kotlin for Android: Best Practices

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Course Description

Overview

Discover how to leverage the power of Kotlin when developing Android mobile apps. Learn best practices for working with some of this popular language’s most helpful features.

Syllabus

Introduction

Kotlin best practices for Android
What you should know

1. From Java to Kotlin

Kotlin language features
EditorConfig

2. Properties and Fields

Auto convert and the !! operator
On-demand property: Getters
Lazy initialization: lazy()
Late initialization: lateinit
Kotlin Android extensions

3. Conditionals

Elvis operator
Scope functions: let
Scope functions: apply
The when expression
Sealed classes

4. Readability

Data class
String templates
Functional programming: map, reduce
Functional programming: find, filter
Functional programming: all, Any
Android KTX

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Chiu-Ki Chan

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