Kotlin Blueprints: A practical guide to building industry-grade web, mobile, and desktop applications in Kotlin using frameworks such as Spring Boot and Node.js - Softcover

Belagali, Ashish; Trivedi, Hardik; Chordiya, Akshay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788390806 ISBN 13: 9781788390804

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Get to know the building blocks of Kotlin and best practices when using quality world-class applications

Key Features

• Learn to build exciting and scalable Android and web applications (both the server-side and client-side parts) with your Kotlin skills
• Dive into the great ecosystem of Kotlin frameworks and libraries through projects that you’ll build using this book
• This project-based guide contains clear instructions to help you extend your applications across a wide domain

Book Description

Kotlin is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. It is a concise, safe, interoperable, and tool-friendly language. The Android team has also announced first-class support for Kotlin, which is an added boost to the language. Kotlin’s growth is fueled through carefully designed business and technology benefits.

The collection of projects demonstrates the versatility of the language and enables you to build standalone applications on your own. You’ll build comprehensive applications using the various features of Kotlin. Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of the projects, and the lessons learned throughout this book.

You’ll learn how to build a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, develop a geospatial webservice with Kotlin and Spring Boot, build responsive web applications with Kotlin, build a REST API for a news feed reader, and build a server-side chat application with Kotlin.

It also covers the various libraries and frameworks used in the projects. Through the course of building applications, you’ll not only get to grips with the various features of Kotlin, but you’ll also discover how to design and prototype professional-grade applications.

What you will learn

• See how Kotlin's power and versatility make it a great choice to create applications across various platforms, and how it delivers business and technology benefits
• Write a robust web applications using Kotlin with Spring Boot
• Write Android applications with ease using Kotlin
• Write rich desktop applications in Kotlin
• Learn how Kotlin can generate Javascript and how this can be used on client side and server side development
• Understand how native applications can be written with Kotlin/Native
• Learn the practical aspects of programming in each of the applications

Who This Book Is For

This practical guide is for programmers who are already familiar with Kotlin. If you are familiar with Kotlin and want to put your knowledge to work, then this is the book for you. Kotlin programming knowledge is a must.

Table of Contents

1. The Power of Kotlin
2. Geospatial Messenger
3. Social Media Aggregator Android App
4. Weather App Using Kotlin for JavaScript
5. Chat Application with Server-side JavaScript Generation
6. News Feed - REST API
7. CSV Reader in Kotlin Native
8. Dictionary Desktop Application - Tornado FX

About this title

About the Authors

Ashish Belagali is an IIT Bombay alumnus with 24 years of experience in software technology, management, consulting, and client handling. He has successfully executed offshore engagements in both onsite and offshore roles. He is known as a turnaround specialist, having turned many IT projects from red to green in a short time. In spite of the senior positions he has handled, Ashish loves coding and has managed to stay hands-on with it. He often speaks about technology, entrepreneurship, and work effectiveness. He is a Kotlin enthusiast and has worked on several Kotlin projects. He is also the founder of the Kotlin Pune User Group.

Hardik Trivedi is a self-taught computer program writer. He has extensively worked on Android and Java since 2010 and has also immersed himself in Kotlin and JavaScript. When he is not working on client projects, he loves contributing back to the development community by spending time on stack overflow and writing tech blogs. Hardik also mentors college students, professionals, and companies who have a keen interest in mobile app development. He is also an active community speaker. Someday in the future, you may find him owning a restaurant and serving exquisite cuisines to his customers.

Akshay Chordiya is the co-founder of BitFurther, an Android Developer by heart, and a Kotlin enthusiast. He has been working with Android for over 4 years. He is an active community speaker who is mostly found talking about Android and Kotlin. Akshay is an avid blogger and instructor. He has a love for anything with the word "technology" in it! The vision of bringing about a change in the world through his knowledge is what makes him get out of bed every day and work on his apps and his start-up. "Doing what you love" can be said to sum up his life until now and in the exciting years to come ahead!

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788390806
• ISBN 13: 9781788390804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260