Kotlin for Android
Adoption of the Kotlin programming language has been most rapid among Android developers. Kotlin is ideally suited to Android development, because it is safe, fast, and optimized for small footprint environments. It is also officially supported by Google for Android development. This talk will review the features of Kotlin that work best for Android, from using the Android Studio IDE, to working with lambda expressions, using extension methods, and more.
We'll look at creating an android project with Kotlin support, using the Android APIs with Kotlin, using the Anko extension library, and co-routines for concurrency.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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