Create Elegant, Expressive, and Performant JVM and Android Applications
by Venkat Subramaniam
Recommended by Josh Long
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Programmers don't just use Kotlin, they love it. Even Google has adopted it as a firstclass language for Android development. With Kotlin, you can intermix imperative, functional, and objectoriented styles of Programming, and benefit from the approach that's most suitable for the problem at hand. Learn to use the many features of this highly conci...
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Consider Kotlin in Action by Dmitry Jemerov.
“Practical and example-driven, this is a hands-on introduction to Kotlin that emphasizes readable code, safety features, and how to make Kotlin interoperate with existing Java projects. Chapters pair short explanations with runnable samples, notes about IDEs and build tools, and concrete advice for calling Java from Kotlin. What works best is teaching usable Kotlin patterns you can drop into a JVM codebase; the main limitation is a steady Java orientation and tooling detail that will feel dense if you wanted a lightweight, purely idiomatic language tour.”



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