Evolving Kotlin

Name: Evolving Kotlin
Author: David Powers

In this chapter you will learn about the capability of Kotlin. You will learn how to use this capability to streamline integration with many avenues of…

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Expanding platform and programmer utilization. Welcome. In this lesson, I will talk about Kotlin's expanding platform and how programmers can utilize it. Kotlin has the ability to allow programmers to use a single code base on multiple platforms with minimum changes. Programmers can write code for an application, then utilize several platforms through various tools to deploy their applications on multiple platforms. For example, KMM, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, in the SDK, the developer's kit, allows programmers to deploy both Android and Apple iOS. We can also implement a native user interface or utilize a whole world of application program interfaces through API, all with one single code base. You can use Kotlin across platforms. You do not need to utilize other programming languages. In addition to working with mobile platforms, your code will work on server-side applications and web frameworks. Support for multiplatform programming is one of Kotlin's key benefits. It reduces time spent writing and maintaining the same code for different platforms. Kotlin is used by a variety of large companies, Fortune 500 companies, who like Kotlin's multiplatform capability. Several large companies are using Kotlin because of its multiplatform abilities, like Netflix and Philips and Yandex, Quizlet. Let's take a look at how Kotlin Multiplatform works. In the center of this diagram is what's called Common Kotlin. This is your Kotlin code. It includes the Kotlin language. It includes core libraries and basic tools. It's code written in Common Kotlin, and it works everywhere, on all platforms. With Kotlin multiplatform libraries, you can reuse the multiplatform for HTTP, for web services, for managing coroutines and serialization, and it works with the JVM and JavaScript and Kotlin/Native. You can share code among all platforms. It works with JVM code, JavaScript code, and native code. Kotlin for JavaScript, also called Kotlin/JS, provides the ability to utilize your Kotlin code with the Kotlin Standard Library and JavaScript. There are Gradle plugins to assist with this. They provide a centralized way to set up and control Kotlin projects with JavaScript. You can utilize Kotlin/JS to write front end web applications and leverage thousands of web APIs. You can create and modify it and interact with all types of elements in the DOM, the Document Object Model. And you can use Kotlin code to control WebGL and other components in your browser. And of course there's Kotlin for Android. Android mobile development has been Kotlin first since Google announced it in 2019. Using Kotlin for Android development, you can benefit from Kotlin support in Android Jetpacks and other libraries. There's KTX extensions. And according to Google, over 60% of the top 1,000 applications on the Play Store use Kotlin. And you can create your own multiplatform library and share your code on all the platforms. If you have logic that is common for all of your platforms, you don't need to write the same code for each platform. Just share it in the common source set. So that is our lesson on Kotlin's expanding platform. Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for the next lesson, where I will show you how Kotlin excels through the brilliance of simplicity. So let's go.

Beginner Provider : David Powers 2 Lessons · 8m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

In this chapter you will learn about the capability of Kotlin. You will learn how to use this capability to streamline integration with many avenues of Information Technology. You will learn that simplicity is the soul of Kotlin’s strength. Finally, you will learn about the importance of customer relations and how Kotlin can speed-up your delivery.

What You'll Learn

Explore the capability of Kotlin and how to apply it
Streamline integration across many avenues of Information Technology using Kotlin
Recognize how Kotlin promotes simplicity and conciseness in code
Use customer feedback to improve your code
Speed up your delivery while strengthening customer relations

Key Takeaways

Simplicity is the soul of Kotlin's strength.
Kotlin's capability can be used to streamline integration with many avenues of Information Technology.
Kotlin promotes simplicity and conciseness in code.
Customer feedback can be used to improve your code.
Kotlin can speed up your delivery and supports strong customer relations.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this chapter cover?

It covers the capability of Kotlin, how to use it to streamline integration with many avenues of Information Technology, how simplicity is the soul of Kotlin's strength, and how Kotlin can speed up your delivery and support customer relations.

What are the learning objectives?

The objectives are to learn how Kotlin promotes simplicity and conciseness and how to use customer feedback to improve your code.

What lessons are included?

The chapter includes two lessons: Platform and Utilization, and Simplicity in Kotlin Code.

What skills does this course relate to?

It relates to Capability Development, Integration Platforms, Iterative and Incremental Development, Kotlin, Technology Integration, and Xtend - Modernized Java.