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Home » Technology » Mobile Development » Introduction to Kotlin

Course Skill Level:

Foundational

Course Duration:

3 day/s

  • Course Delivery Format:

    Live, instructor-led.

  • Course Category:

    Mobile Development

  • Course Code:

    IKOTLIR21S09

Who should attend & recommended skills:

Experienced Java & Android developers

Who should attend & recommended skills

  • Developers who already know Java and Android
  • Those wishing to learn the Kotlin Language
  • Java: Basics (1-2 years’ experience) required
  • Android (1-2 years’ experience) required

About this course

In response to Google’s Kotlin-first policy for Android, every team doing Android development needs to consider Kotlin. This three-day course is an in-depth introduction to the Kotlin language.

Skills acquired & topics covered

  • After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Understand Kotlin language fundamentals
  • Create Kotlin Classes and Objects
  • Use Kotlin Generics
  • Implement Concurrency with Coroutines
  • Add Kotlin code to existing Android applications
  • Use Kotlin APIs in Android
  • Build an Android application entirely in Kotlin

Course breakdown / modules

  • History of Kotlin
  • Why Kotlin?
  • Characteristics of Kotlin
  • Tools

  • Mutable and Immutable Variables
  • Types and Type Inference
  • Arrays
  • type Conversion

  • Operators
  • Conditionals
  • Loops
  • Break and Continue

  • The Problem with Java
  • Safe Call Operator
  • Elvis Operator
  • Not Null Assertion

  • Companion Objects
  • Property References
  • Function References
  • Java-style Reflection

  • Extension Functions
  • Nullable Receiver
  • Extension Properties
  • Scope

  • Call Kotlin from Java
  • Call Java from Kotlin
  • Convert Java to Kotlin
  • Null Safety and Java

  • Higher Order Functions
  • Function Types
  • Lambdas
  • Closures

  • Variance and Covariance
  • Type Projections
  • Generic Functions
  • Type Erasure

  • Lists
  • Sets
  • Maps
  • Sequences

  • Extension Functions
  • Sequences
  • Transformations
  • Operators

  • Coroutines and Threads
  • Dispatch
  • Channels
  • Shared Mutable State

  • Add Kotlin to an Existing Android App
  • Create an app in Kotlin
  • Debug and Run a Kotlin App
  • Add Java to a Kotlin App

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