Kotlin is a new language for the JVM that aims to be a "better Java". Made in-house by Jetbrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA and also Android Studio, it's been in development for more than 5 years. Just a few weeks ago the final version of Kotlin 1.0 saw the light of day.
This talk will start with a brief introduction into Kotlin and its core language features. After this brief foray into concepts like Kotlin's immutable variables, null behaviour and other smarts like the syntactic sugar it provides for dealing with types and properties you'll discover what's in store for Android developers.
Particularly noteworthy are the decrease in annoying Java boilerplate code, fewer of the irritating "Process has stopped unexpectedly" messages and the easily available Kotlin Android Extensions. You will also explore the toolchain and compiler tools Kotlin provides for Android development, the differences to using Kotlin for Java development as well as the integration into Android Studio.
It's 2017. Kotlin, a great language for the JVM, has been around for more than 6 years now and has changed the way a lot of developers look at the features and evolutionary progress of Java. Kotlin has become a very popular alternative to Java for Android developers and with Kotlin 1.1 being on its way, thing are going to become more exciting.
This talk will start with a brief introduction into Kotlin and its core language features. After this brief foray into concepts like Kotlin's immutable variables, null behaviour and other smarts like the syntactic sugar it provides for dealing with types and properties we'll have a look into what in store for Android developers and into new features in Kotlin 1.1, such as Kotlin Coroutines, Jack support for Android and lots of improvements to the standard library.
Are you stuck in the Java world? I’ll share my story about convincing my team and the client of the benefits of Kotlin. Furthermore I’ll delve into how we migrated an existing Java Android app, with 300k active users, to Kotlin. Even if you have never seen Kotlin before, come and see how you will create better apps with this modern and elegant language. At the end of this talk you’ll be able to convince your team / client why it’s a great to use Kotlin. The power of Kotlin can be leveraged everywhere you use Java, since it compiles to JVM bytecode. So even if you’re not an Android developer, check out this session to get acquainted with Kotlin! No excuses: switch to Kotlin :)
Anko - The Ultimate Ninja of Kotlin Libraries?Kai Koenig
Kotlin is a new language for the JVM that aims to be a ””better Java”“. Made in-house by Jetbrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA and also Android Studio, it’s been in development for more than 5 years. Just a few weeks ago the final version of Kotlin 1.0 saw the light of day.
The language itself gives one so much niceness and syntactic sugar that you’d probably never want to go back to coding in Java again. Things get even better with Anko. Anko is pretty much the ultimate Ninja of Kotlin libraries. The feature it’s best know for is its Layout DSL that allows one to programatically write UI code in Kotlin. No more XML layout and no awkward piecing together of your UI through clunky Java APIs. We will look at how to use and how to extend the Layout DSL for your own requirements and then move on to Anko’s advanced, non-layout-related features:
- Intent wrappers
- Shortcuts to system services
- Asynchronous task management
- Anko SQLite and more
Next Insurance was founded in the beginning of 2016 and first lines of our production code started accumulating in May 2016. In the beginning I have started writing in Java and experimenting with Kotlin, which saw its 1.0 release two months earlier. 6 months later, the development of our backend services has totally shifted to Kotlin. We still keep a few classes in Java just to make sure that the integration remains seamless but the vast majority of our codebase is written in Kotlin. In this talk I will cover the language features and why I think it is awesome, from null safety to smart casts and data classes. We will also look into the future with 1.1 async/await feature and more.
API management with Taffy and API BlueprintKai Koenig
Introduction to API development with Taffy, a developer-friendly and convention-based framework for ColdFusion and Lucee.
Code samples at: https://github.com/TheRealAgentK/taffydemos
Little Helpers for Android Development with KotlinKai Koenig
Kotlin is a new language for the JVM that aims to be a "better Java". Made in-house by Jetbrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA and also Android Studio, it's been in development for more than 5 years. Just a few months ago the final version of Kotlin 1.0 saw the light of day.
Starting off with Kotlin for Java development and for Android is actually quite straight forward. There's a lot of well written documentation, there are the Kotlin Koans and blogs seem to pick up Kotlin-related topics more and more. What a lot of people are not aware of though is that there are a bunch of really useful libraries and tools for Kotlin developers, in particular on Android (the most common and well known one being Ando).
This session from Droidcon Germany 2016 in Berlin will start with a quick introduction into Kotlin and its benefits over Java. Then we'll dive into the Kotlin-Android-ecosystem and look at a variety of Kotlin tools and libraries that can make one's life much easier - even to a level going beyond what core Kotlin already has to offer.
It's 2017. Kotlin, a great language for the JVM, has been around for more than 6 years now and has changed the way a lot of developers look at the features and evolutionary progress of Java. Kotlin has become a very popular alternative to Java for Android developers and with Kotlin 1.1 being on its way, thing are going to become more exciting.
This talk will start with a brief introduction into Kotlin and its core language features. After this brief foray into concepts like Kotlin's immutable variables, null behaviour and other smarts like the syntactic sugar it provides for dealing with types and properties we'll have a look into what in store for Android developers and into new features in Kotlin 1.1, such as Kotlin Coroutines, Jack support for Android and lots of improvements to the standard library.
Are you stuck in the Java world? I’ll share my story about convincing my team and the client of the benefits of Kotlin. Furthermore I’ll delve into how we migrated an existing Java Android app, with 300k active users, to Kotlin. Even if you have never seen Kotlin before, come and see how you will create better apps with this modern and elegant language. At the end of this talk you’ll be able to convince your team / client why it’s a great to use Kotlin. The power of Kotlin can be leveraged everywhere you use Java, since it compiles to JVM bytecode. So even if you’re not an Android developer, check out this session to get acquainted with Kotlin! No excuses: switch to Kotlin :)
Anko - The Ultimate Ninja of Kotlin Libraries?Kai Koenig
Kotlin is a new language for the JVM that aims to be a ””better Java”“. Made in-house by Jetbrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA and also Android Studio, it’s been in development for more than 5 years. Just a few weeks ago the final version of Kotlin 1.0 saw the light of day.
The language itself gives one so much niceness and syntactic sugar that you’d probably never want to go back to coding in Java again. Things get even better with Anko. Anko is pretty much the ultimate Ninja of Kotlin libraries. The feature it’s best know for is its Layout DSL that allows one to programatically write UI code in Kotlin. No more XML layout and no awkward piecing together of your UI through clunky Java APIs. We will look at how to use and how to extend the Layout DSL for your own requirements and then move on to Anko’s advanced, non-layout-related features:
- Intent wrappers
- Shortcuts to system services
- Asynchronous task management
- Anko SQLite and more
Next Insurance was founded in the beginning of 2016 and first lines of our production code started accumulating in May 2016. In the beginning I have started writing in Java and experimenting with Kotlin, which saw its 1.0 release two months earlier. 6 months later, the development of our backend services has totally shifted to Kotlin. We still keep a few classes in Java just to make sure that the integration remains seamless but the vast majority of our codebase is written in Kotlin. In this talk I will cover the language features and why I think it is awesome, from null safety to smart casts and data classes. We will also look into the future with 1.1 async/await feature and more.
API management with Taffy and API BlueprintKai Koenig
Introduction to API development with Taffy, a developer-friendly and convention-based framework for ColdFusion and Lucee.
Code samples at: https://github.com/TheRealAgentK/taffydemos
Little Helpers for Android Development with KotlinKai Koenig
Kotlin is a new language for the JVM that aims to be a "better Java". Made in-house by Jetbrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA and also Android Studio, it's been in development for more than 5 years. Just a few months ago the final version of Kotlin 1.0 saw the light of day.
Starting off with Kotlin for Java development and for Android is actually quite straight forward. There's a lot of well written documentation, there are the Kotlin Koans and blogs seem to pick up Kotlin-related topics more and more. What a lot of people are not aware of though is that there are a bunch of really useful libraries and tools for Kotlin developers, in particular on Android (the most common and well known one being Ando).
This session from Droidcon Germany 2016 in Berlin will start with a quick introduction into Kotlin and its benefits over Java. Then we'll dive into the Kotlin-Android-ecosystem and look at a variety of Kotlin tools and libraries that can make one's life much easier - even to a level going beyond what core Kotlin already has to offer.
Introduction to kotlin for android app development gdg ahmedabad dev fest 2017Hardik Trivedi
The presentation was given in Ahmedabad GDG DevFest 2017. It has introduction to Kotlin for Android App Development.
Talk will is specially designed for beginners, who has heard about Kotlin but couldn’t explore it till date. The talk will take attendees to the journey where they can know Kotlin as a programming language. What Kotlin offers for Android? How to start the development using Kotlin, Features of Kotlin, Some of the disadvantages of Kotlin.
I will be discussing about following topics
- What’s Kotlin
- Why Kotlin
- Setting up Kotlin
- Features of Kotlin
- Syntax crash course
- Classes
- Features of function programming like Lamdabs and Higher order functions
- Usage of Anko
- Migrating from Java project to Kotlin
- Future of Kotlin
- Disadvantages of Kotlin
StxNext Lightning Talks - Feb 12, 2016
Kotlin - one of the popular programming languages built on top of Java that runs on JVM. Thanks to JetBrains support and excellent IDE integration, it’s an ideal choice when it comes to Android development. 100% Java compatibility, interoperability and no runtime overhead is just the beginning of a long list of strengths. Kotlin is supposed to be a subset of SCALA, on one hand covering major advantages for developers and on the other - keeping short compile times.
This presentation is a Developer Starter - a set of hand-picked information allowing a person with no knowledge of Kotlin to start writing basic Android activities and set up an Android-kotlin project. It starts with language background, reasons for its creation and advantages. Then presents basic use cases, syntax, structures and patterns. Later on Kotlin is presented in Android context. Simple project structure, imports and Kotlin usage with Android SDK is explained. In the end cost of Kotlin usage is presented and the language is compared to SCALA and SWIFT.
I used these slides to present the benefits of using Kotlin to a group of people I work with. The presentation focuses on comparing Kotlin to Java, and in particular showing how Kotlin can help in writing safer, more concise and readable code. I used a few java gotchas/puzzles to demonstrate how Kotlin may prevent us from doing silly things.
Kotlin is a JVM language developed by Jetbrains. Its version 1.0 (production ready) was released at the beginning of the year and made some buzz within the android community. This session proposes to discover this language, which takes up some aspects of groovy or scala, and that is very close to swift in syntax and concepts. We will see how Kotlin boosts the productivity of Java & Android application development and how well it accompanies reactive development.
Next Insurance was founded at the beginning of 2016, and the first lines of its production code started accumulating in May 2016. As the first back-end developer, I started writing in Java and out of curiosity was experimenting with Kotlin. Kotlin had just seen its 1.0 release two months earlier. A year later, Next Insurance’s entire back-end development team is writing all the code in Kotlin. We already have 8 microservices and several AWS lambda functions all written in Kotlin. Migration from 1.0.x to Kotlin 1.1 was smooth, and the developers are happy. This presentation covers the language’s features and why I think it is awesome and fits perfectly with my company’s architecture.
While Google is adding Kotlin as an official Android language, we're also expanding our research on this language. It’s developed by JetBrains, and the fact that these are the people behind a suite of IDEs, such as IntelliJ and ReSharper, really shines through in Kotlin. It’s pragmatic and concise and makes coding a satisfying and efficient experience.
Although Kotlin compiles to both JavaScript and soon machine code, I’ll focus on its prime environment, the JVM.
Please see my presentation to learn more!
Kotlin advanced - language reference for android developersBartosz Kosarzycki
StxNext Lightning Talks - Mar 11, 2016
Kotlin Advanced - language reference for Android developers
This presentation contains the second talk on Kotlin language we had at STXNext. We try go deeper into language specifics and look at the positive impact new syntax can have on boilerplate removal and readability improvement.
Kotlin really shines in Android development when one looks at “Enum translation”, “Extension functions”, “SAM conversions”, “Infix notation”, “Closures” and “Fluent interfaces” applied to lists. The talk, however, compares language-specifics of Java & Kotlin in terms of “Type Variance”, “Generics” and “IDE tools” as well.
We present real-world example based on Stx-Insider project written in Kotlin which incorporates Dagger 2, Kotterknife, Retrofit2 and is composed of 5+ Activities.
Full agenda
Live templates
Enum translation
Calling extension functions from Kotlin/Java
Constructors with backing fields
Warnings
F-bound polymorphism
Variance (Covariance/Contravariance)
Variance comparison in Kotlin/Java/Scala
Annotation processing - KAPT
SAM conversions
Type equality
Lambda vs Closure
Reified generics
Fluent interfaces
Infix notation
Static extension methods in Kotlin
Generic types
Sealed classes
Dokka - documentation in Kotlin
J2K converter
Real-world example
Reflection
Presentation is accompanied with an example project (StxInsider):
https://github.com/kosiara/stx-insider
The Jetbrain's Kotlin language cheat sheet, created by ekito and launched for the Toulouse's devfest - https://www.ekito.fr/people/kotlin-cheat-sheet/
This paper helps you keep the main feature of the Kotlin language, under the hand. Just download it & print it !
Will talk about kotlin the language and new concepts introduced in the language including functional programming.
And how to use your springframework knowlege to write more concise and elegant backend systems.
We will demo a backend written in spring boot and kotlin and will see how it is so easy to interoperate between java and kotlin code.
mjprof: Monadic approach for JVM profilingHaim Yadid
A traditional Java profiler consists of two components. One collects profile data from the running application and the other is a visualization user interface to query the data. The profiler capabilities are limited by the data collected but also by the provided reports and functionality. This can be limiting when it comes to complex query of data. In this session we will introduce mjprof. It is an open source textual visualization profiler. It is extremely powerful as it enables you to compose a sequence of simple steps (monads) such as filters, transformations, group-by which let you slice and dice the data to pinpoint the problem. Working with mjprof resembles working with UNIX pipes. We will explain how to use this tool and present use cases and success stories, using this profiler in the last months. mjprof is written in Java and can be found on github as part of the AdoptOpenJDK project.
Introduction to kotlin for android app development gdg ahmedabad dev fest 2017Hardik Trivedi
The presentation was given in Ahmedabad GDG DevFest 2017. It has introduction to Kotlin for Android App Development.
Talk will is specially designed for beginners, who has heard about Kotlin but couldn’t explore it till date. The talk will take attendees to the journey where they can know Kotlin as a programming language. What Kotlin offers for Android? How to start the development using Kotlin, Features of Kotlin, Some of the disadvantages of Kotlin.
I will be discussing about following topics
- What’s Kotlin
- Why Kotlin
- Setting up Kotlin
- Features of Kotlin
- Syntax crash course
- Classes
- Features of function programming like Lamdabs and Higher order functions
- Usage of Anko
- Migrating from Java project to Kotlin
- Future of Kotlin
- Disadvantages of Kotlin
StxNext Lightning Talks - Feb 12, 2016
Kotlin - one of the popular programming languages built on top of Java that runs on JVM. Thanks to JetBrains support and excellent IDE integration, it’s an ideal choice when it comes to Android development. 100% Java compatibility, interoperability and no runtime overhead is just the beginning of a long list of strengths. Kotlin is supposed to be a subset of SCALA, on one hand covering major advantages for developers and on the other - keeping short compile times.
This presentation is a Developer Starter - a set of hand-picked information allowing a person with no knowledge of Kotlin to start writing basic Android activities and set up an Android-kotlin project. It starts with language background, reasons for its creation and advantages. Then presents basic use cases, syntax, structures and patterns. Later on Kotlin is presented in Android context. Simple project structure, imports and Kotlin usage with Android SDK is explained. In the end cost of Kotlin usage is presented and the language is compared to SCALA and SWIFT.
I used these slides to present the benefits of using Kotlin to a group of people I work with. The presentation focuses on comparing Kotlin to Java, and in particular showing how Kotlin can help in writing safer, more concise and readable code. I used a few java gotchas/puzzles to demonstrate how Kotlin may prevent us from doing silly things.
Kotlin is a JVM language developed by Jetbrains. Its version 1.0 (production ready) was released at the beginning of the year and made some buzz within the android community. This session proposes to discover this language, which takes up some aspects of groovy or scala, and that is very close to swift in syntax and concepts. We will see how Kotlin boosts the productivity of Java & Android application development and how well it accompanies reactive development.
Next Insurance was founded at the beginning of 2016, and the first lines of its production code started accumulating in May 2016. As the first back-end developer, I started writing in Java and out of curiosity was experimenting with Kotlin. Kotlin had just seen its 1.0 release two months earlier. A year later, Next Insurance’s entire back-end development team is writing all the code in Kotlin. We already have 8 microservices and several AWS lambda functions all written in Kotlin. Migration from 1.0.x to Kotlin 1.1 was smooth, and the developers are happy. This presentation covers the language’s features and why I think it is awesome and fits perfectly with my company’s architecture.
While Google is adding Kotlin as an official Android language, we're also expanding our research on this language. It’s developed by JetBrains, and the fact that these are the people behind a suite of IDEs, such as IntelliJ and ReSharper, really shines through in Kotlin. It’s pragmatic and concise and makes coding a satisfying and efficient experience.
Although Kotlin compiles to both JavaScript and soon machine code, I’ll focus on its prime environment, the JVM.
Please see my presentation to learn more!
Kotlin advanced - language reference for android developersBartosz Kosarzycki
StxNext Lightning Talks - Mar 11, 2016
Kotlin Advanced - language reference for Android developers
This presentation contains the second talk on Kotlin language we had at STXNext. We try go deeper into language specifics and look at the positive impact new syntax can have on boilerplate removal and readability improvement.
Kotlin really shines in Android development when one looks at “Enum translation”, “Extension functions”, “SAM conversions”, “Infix notation”, “Closures” and “Fluent interfaces” applied to lists. The talk, however, compares language-specifics of Java & Kotlin in terms of “Type Variance”, “Generics” and “IDE tools” as well.
We present real-world example based on Stx-Insider project written in Kotlin which incorporates Dagger 2, Kotterknife, Retrofit2 and is composed of 5+ Activities.
Full agenda
Live templates
Enum translation
Calling extension functions from Kotlin/Java
Constructors with backing fields
Warnings
F-bound polymorphism
Variance (Covariance/Contravariance)
Variance comparison in Kotlin/Java/Scala
Annotation processing - KAPT
SAM conversions
Type equality
Lambda vs Closure
Reified generics
Fluent interfaces
Infix notation
Static extension methods in Kotlin
Generic types
Sealed classes
Dokka - documentation in Kotlin
J2K converter
Real-world example
Reflection
Presentation is accompanied with an example project (StxInsider):
https://github.com/kosiara/stx-insider
The Jetbrain's Kotlin language cheat sheet, created by ekito and launched for the Toulouse's devfest - https://www.ekito.fr/people/kotlin-cheat-sheet/
This paper helps you keep the main feature of the Kotlin language, under the hand. Just download it & print it !
Will talk about kotlin the language and new concepts introduced in the language including functional programming.
And how to use your springframework knowlege to write more concise and elegant backend systems.
We will demo a backend written in spring boot and kotlin and will see how it is so easy to interoperate between java and kotlin code.
mjprof: Monadic approach for JVM profilingHaim Yadid
A traditional Java profiler consists of two components. One collects profile data from the running application and the other is a visualization user interface to query the data. The profiler capabilities are limited by the data collected but also by the provided reports and functionality. This can be limiting when it comes to complex query of data. In this session we will introduce mjprof. It is an open source textual visualization profiler. It is extremely powerful as it enables you to compose a sequence of simple steps (monads) such as filters, transformations, group-by which let you slice and dice the data to pinpoint the problem. Working with mjprof resembles working with UNIX pipes. We will explain how to use this tool and present use cases and success stories, using this profiler in the last months. mjprof is written in Java and can be found on github as part of the AdoptOpenJDK project.
Kotlin Bytecode Generation and Runtime Performanceintelliyole
In this talk, we'll dive into the details of how various language features supported by Kotlin are translated to Java bytecode. We'll use the JMH microbenchmarking tool to study the relative performance of various constructs and to understand how we can ensure top performance of the Kotlin code that we write.
While most bugs reveal their cause within their stack trace, Java’s OutOfMemoryError is less talkative and therefore regarded as being difficult to debug by a majority of developers. With the right techniques and tools, memory leaks in Java programs can however be tackled like any other programming error. This talks discusses how a JVM stores data, categorizes different types of memory leaks that can occur in a Java program and presents techniques for fixing such errors. Furthermore, we will have a closer look at lambda expressions and their considerable potential of introducing memory leaks when they are used incautiously.
Are you tired of java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space? Then this talk is for you! We'll begin with a crash course in the Java memory model in order to understand what the error message means. Then we'll look at different causes of the error and how to avoid them. We may glance at a few interesting mistakes from the Open Source world. Last but not least you'll learn how you can get rid of java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space once and for all.
Building Scalable Stateless Applications with RxJavaRick Warren
RxJava is a lightweight open-source library, originally from Netflix, that makes it easy to compose asynchronous data sources and operations. This presentation is a high-level intro to this library and how it can fit into your application.
Diagnóstico diferencial de las pérdidas de agudeza visual. Dra Ana María González Manero. Residente de Neurología. Sesión del Servicio de Neurología del Area Mancha Centro. Hospitales de Alcázar de San Juan y Tomelloso.
Memory Management: What You Need to Know When Moving to Java 8AppDynamics
This presentation will compare and contrast application behavior in Java 7 with Java 8, particularly focusing on memory management and usage. Several code examples are presented to show how to recognize and respond to common pitfalls.
JavaFX 2 and Scala - Like Milk and Cookies (33rd Degrees)Stephen Chin
JavaFX 2.0 is the next version of a revolutionary rich client platform for developing immersive desktop applications. One of the new features in JavaFX 2.0 is a set of pure Java APIs that can be used from any JVM language, opening up tremendous possibilities. This presentation demonstrates the benefits of using JavaFX 2.0 together with the Scala programming language to provide a type-safe declarative syntax with support for lazy bindings and collections. Advanced language features, such as DelayedInit and @specialized will be discussed, as will ways of forcing prioritization of implicit conversions for n-level cases. Those who survive the pure technical geekiness of this talk will be rewarded with plenty of JavaFX UI eye candy.
Kotlin provides a modern, statically-typed, and expressive alternative to Java, offering null safety, coroutines for asynchronous programming, and a succinct, intuitive syntax.
This presentation will give an introduction to Kotlin, looking at various language features, how those features are utilized by the Kotlin Standard Library, and how they are implemented in performance-conscious ways.
Kotlin: A pragmatic language by JetBrainsJigar Gosar
A pragmatic language for JVM and Android.
Combines OO and functional features.
Focused on interoperability, safety, clarity, tooling support.
Open Source.
Works everywhere where Java works.
Key focus on interoperability and seamless support for mixed Java+Kotlin projects.
Poniendo Kotlin en producción a palos (Kotlin in production, the hard way)Andrés Viedma Peláez
Talk presented at Codemotion Madrid 2017. Kotlin in a live production environment from early 2017, in microservices using a Java platform in Tuenti, Discussions on risks and experiences months after.
Kotlin Coroutines and Android sitting in a treeKai Koenig
Since the release of Kotlin 1.1 there is now the new language feature of Kotlin Coroutines available for use in Java and Android projects. Coroutines are a new way to write asynchronous and non-blocking code. They can be thought of as light-weight threads without having to deal with all the problems that threads bring to the table.
A lot of developers think that Kotlin Coroutines are mainly or only useful for Kotlin on the JVM, but that’s not true. There are a variety of use cases in which the application of Coroutines can make a lot of sense on Android.
This talk is introducing the ideas behind Kotlin Coroutines, showing how to use them in Kotlin code for both the JVM and Android via the kotlinx-coroutines APIs and then exploring specific applications in Android. Part of this is a deeper look into the use of Coroutines in higher-level frameworks such as AsyncAwait and Anko.
Kotlin - The Swiss army knife of programming languages - Visma Mobile Meet-up...Tudor Dragan
Kotlin is a powerful language, but it also comes with its traps and pitfalls. This presentation is about uncovering the very nice features and strange particularities that the language has to offer.
Slides from my "Swift, Swiftly" session at Øredev 2014.
Revealed by Apple in June of this year, the Swift programming language has already established itself as a huge leap forward for iOS and OS X developers. Learn the ins and outs of this new language, see how it compares to other modern OO languages, and hear about how Apple developers are using Swift to achieve new levels of productivity and efficiency.
Full video available: http://oredev.org/2014/sessions/swift-swiftly
Google is adding Kotlin as an official programming language for Android development. Kotlin is a language that runs on the JVM and has full interoperability with Java. It costs nothing to adopt! I will show some cool features of Kotlin, how it makes developing with Android easy and finally we'll see what happens under the hood when we write in Kotlin.
Updating the skills of new Android developers with what they need to start their first application in Kotlin and update their knowledge with Google I/O 2018 latest update announcement.
An introductory PowerPoint to understanding and applying the C++ programming language. Broken down into lessons covering:
Introduction: Definitions and the History of Programming
Lesson 1: Libraries, Variables and Types, Blocks and Namespaces, Functions
Lesson 2: If...Else Statements, For and While Loops, Scope
Exercise: Program a Gumball Game
Lesson 3: Classes and Objects, Pointers
Similar to Coding for Android on steroids with Kotlin (20)
Why a whole country skipped a day - Fun with Timezones Kai Koenig
Droidcon UK 2018
The correct handling of timezones and locales is one of the most under-appreciated parts of software development. Commonly known as internationalisation (i18n), a lot of people underestimate the impact that getting it wrong can have for your users as well as your systems.
Drawn from experiences with working on a global network of backend systems, websites and mobile apps in more than 30 locales for the last 10 years, this talk will start with an introduction to the concepts behind time zones and locales.
You’re going to learn about the history of time measurement and time synchronisation and how the world eventually ended up with the global system of time zones of today. Today’s model is full of interesting and sometimes outright bizarre quirks and you’ll look at some of best and worst of them. From there you’ll learn about the ideas behind locales and why cultural context is at least as important as a locale’s common collection of purely technical data such a number formats or text direction. After this, the talk will cover how common runtime environments like Android and Java represent these ideas.
Kotlin Coroutines and Android sitting in a tree - 2018 versionKai Koenig
Since the release of Kotlin 1.1 there is now the language feature of Kotlin Coroutines available for use in Java and Android projects. Coroutines are a new way to write asynchronous and non-blocking code. They can be thought of as light-weight threads without having to deal with all the problems that threads bring to the table.
A lot of developers think that Kotlin Coroutines are mainly or only useful for Kotlin on the JVM, but that’s not true. There are a variety of use cases in which the application of Coroutines can make a lot of sense on Android.
This talk is introducing the ideas behind Kotlin Coroutines, showing how to use them in Kotlin code for both the JVM and Android via the kotlinx-coroutines APIs and then exploring specific applications in Android. Part of this is a deeper look into the use of Coroutines in higher-level frameworks such as AsyncAwait and Anko and how they stack up against other concepts of asynchrony such as rxJava.
Let's talk about code quality.
We all agree that our code needs to be functional so that it meets business requirements. We also should aim for code that is well written and maintainable for future changes. There are a lot of elements playing into that. A well thought system architecture is an important foundation. The selection of an appropriate framework could be the next step. In the end you might look at how to format and write your code on a line-by-line basis.
This talk will provide an introduction into code quality. We will look at various aspects around this term first. From there we can investigate different ways how you can perform code analysis. This will help you measure and understand code quality. There is a range of categories of tools available, some of which also support CFML.
In the second part of the talk we'll look at the details and usage of CFLint. CFLint is a static code analyser for CFML that is based on the CFParser project.
A lot of people talk about Data Mining, Machine Learning and Big Data. It clearly must be important, right?
A lot of people are also trying to sell you snake oil - sometimes half-arsed and overpriced products or solutions promising a world of insight into your customers or users if you handover your data to them. Instead, trying to understanding your own data and what you could do with it, should be the first thing you’d be looking at.
In this talk, we’ll introduce some basic terminology about Data and Text Mining as well as Machine Learning and will have a look at what you can on your own to understand more about your data and discover patterns in your data.
An introduction into the Garbage First (G1) garbage collector for the JVM. The session covers general GC concepts, the fundamentals of G1 and how to setup and tune the JVM for G1.
This talk is about time, time zones, locales, translations, regions and all sorts of stuff that is related to it. Full of history and fun fact goodness.
Clojure - an introduction (and some CFML)Kai Koenig
This is a talk I gave at CFCAMP 2012 in Munich. It's an introduction to Clojure for CFML developers and how to leverage Clojure from a CFML developer's point of view.
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4. WHAT IS KOTLIN?
SOME FUNDAMENTALS
▸ Statically typed programming
language for the JVM and Android
▸ Started as internal language “Project
Kotlin” at Jetbrains in 2010
▸ Now: Open-Source, Apache License
▸ Kotlin SDK plus tool support for IntelliJ,
Android Studio, Eclipse
▸ Named after an island in the Gulf of
Finland
5. WHAT IS KOTLIN?
MOTIVATION FOR KOTLIN
▸ The Java platform is awesome, but it has its issues:
▸ sometimes tied to backwards/legacy compatibility
▸ can be a very verbose language and produce bloated code
▸ type system has various flaws
▸ Kotlin aims to fix a lot of those issues
▸ compiles to Java 6 byte code therefore caters well for Android runtimes
6. WHAT IS KOTLIN?
HOW DOES A SIMPLE CONVERSION LOOK LIKE?
public String listConvert(Collection<Integer>
collection) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("{");
Iterator<Integer> iterator =
collection.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
Integer element = iterator.next();
sb.append(element);
if (iterator.hasNext()) {
sb.append(", ");
}
}
sb.append("}");
return sb.toString();
}
fun listConvert(collection: Collection<Int>): String {
val sb = StringBuilder()
sb.append("{")
val iterator = collection.iterator()
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
val element = iterator.next()
sb.append(element)
if (iterator.hasNext()) {
sb.append(", ")
}
}
sb.append("}")
return sb.toString()
}
fun listConvertKt(collection: Collection<Int>): String {
return collection.joinToString(prefix = "{",postfix = "}")
}
8. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
OVERVIEW
▸ Immutability
▸ String templates & Enum classes
▸ Null safety
▸ Properties and Fields
▸ Type inference and casts
▸ Data classes
▸ Syntactic sugar (loops, ranges etc)
▸ Extension functions
▸ Lambdas
▸ Collection API
▸ Type-safe builders
▸ Java-Kotlin-Interop
9. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
IMMUTABILITY
▸ Built-in support for mutable and
immutable variables, properties and
fields
▸ Keywords var and val
▸ val - immutable (recommended)
▸ var - mutable
▸ Similar concept applies for class
properties, val creates getters, var
creates getters and setters (more later)
val a: Int = 1
val b = 1
val c: Int
c = 1
var x = 23
x += 1
10. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
STRING TEMPLATES & ENUM CLASSES (I)
▸ Kotlin Strings can contain template
expressions
▸ String templates start with a $ character
and
▸ can contain simple references such
as $s, as well as
▸ complex expressions in curly braces:
${s.length}
val s = "abc"
val str = "$s.length is ${s.length}"
Output:
abc.length is 3
11. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
STRING TEMPLATES & ENUM CLASSES (II)
▸ Kotlin has a dedicated and expressive
enum class
▸ Can be used very nicely in conjunction
with String templates
enum class Locale(val hello: String) {
DE_DE("Hallo"),
EN_NZ("Hello"),
MI_NZ("Kia Ora")
}
class Customer(val firstName:String,
val lastName:String,
val locale: Locale = Locale.DE_DE) {
fun sayHello() = println(
"${locale.hello}, $firstName $lastName")
}
fun main(args : Array<String>) {
val myCustomer = Customer("Sandra",
"Musterfrau",
Locale.MI_NZ)
myCustomer.sayHello()
}
12. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
NULL SAFETY
▸ Motivation: A better way to deal with NPEs
▸ Kotlin differentiates nullable types from non-
nullable types by adding a ? to the type:
▸ String: no nullable
▸ String?: nullable
▸ Handle manually
▸ Use Safe Call operator ?.
▸ Use the !! operator to allow/trigger a NPE
// Won't compile
var lastName: String = null
// Will compile
var lastNameNullable: String? = null
// Will also not compile
println(lastNameNullable.length)
// Option 1 (-1)
println(if (lastNameNullable != null)
lastNameNullable.length else -1)
// Option 2 (null)
println(lastNameNullable?.length)
// Option 3 (NPE)
println(lastNameNullable!!.length)
13. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
PROPERTIES AND FIELDS
▸ Kotlin classes have mutable or
immutable properties
▸ Default getter/setters for properties,
can be customised
▸ An automated backing field can be
provided by the compiler (if required)
▸ Alternative: use an explicit backing
property
var counter = 0
set(value) {
if (value >= 0)
field = value
}
public class Address {
public var name: String = ...
public var street: String = ...
public var city: String = ...
public var state: String? = ...
public var zip: String = ...
}
14. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
TYPE INFERENCE AND CASTS (I)
▸ When possible, Kotlin will infer the type
of variables
▸ Explicit conversions, type widening and
inference
▸ Smaller types are not subtypes of
bigger types, no implicit conversion
▸ Types are often inferred from the
context
val b: Byte = 1
// This won't work
val i: Int = b
// This will
val i: Int = b.toInt()
val l: Long = 1L + 3
15. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
TYPE INFERENCE AND CASTS (II)
▸ is or !is checks if an object adheres to a
certain type
▸ Smart cast: Compiler tracks is-expressions
for immutable values
▸ works for val local variables and private,
internal or in-module performed casts
▸ works for var local variables if the
variable hasn’t been modified between
check and usage, never for var
properties
fun whatIs(x: Any) {
when (x) {
is Int -> println(x + 42)
is String -> println(x.length)
is IntArray -> println(x.sum())
}
}
whatIs(4) // 46
whatIs("4") // 1
whatIs(intArrayOf(1,2,3,4,5)) // 15
16. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
DATA CLASSES
▸ The POJOs/Beans of other languages
▸ Data classes implicitly create:
▸ getters/setters (non-data classes
have those too) - recommend to use
val as often as possible.
▸ useful implementations for equals(),
hashCode(), toString(), copy()
▸ copy() has default parameters and
can be used to alter a copy
data class ChromeEncryptedPayload(
val encryptedPayload: String,
val encryptionHeader: String,
val cryptoKeyHeader: String)
val pl = ChromeEncryptedPayload(
encryptedPayload = "...",
encryptionHeader = "...",
cryptoKeyHeader = "...")
val anotherPl = pl.copy(
encryptedPayload = "...")
17. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
EXTENSION FUNCTIONS
▸ Allow adding new functionality to a
class without inheritance or Decorators
▸ Kotlin has extension functions as well
as extension properties
▸ Resolved statically, don’t actually
modify the class (excellent example
why this has to be the case at http://
goo.gl/EN6bTs
fun Int.sum(otherInt: Int): Int =
this + otherInt
3.sum(7)
fun Activity.toast(message: CharSequence,
duration: Int =
TOAST.LENGTH_SHORT) {
Toast.makeText(this, message,
duration).show()
}
// In onCreate of an Activity
override fun onCreate(...) {
...
toast("Hi there")
...
}
18. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
LAMBDAS
▸ Anonymous function or “function
literal”, closely related to the ideas of
Higher-Order-Functions
val sum = { x: Int, y: Int -> x + y }
val sum: (Int, Int) -> Int = { x, y ->
x + y }
private fun convertPetListToDomain(list: List<Pet>): List<PetDomain> {
return list.map { convertPetItemToDomain(it) }
}
private fun convertPetItemToDomain(pet: Pet): PetDomain {
return PetDomain(pet.age,pet.size,pet.id,pet.name,pet.sex,pet.breed)
}
19. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
TYPE-SAFE BUILDERS (I)
▸ Builders are a very popular approach in
Groovy to define data in a declarative
way
▸ Often used for:
▸ generating XML or JSON
▸ UI layout (Swing components) etc
▸ In Kotlin, builders even can be type-
checked
JsonBuilder builder = new JsonBuilder()
builder.records {
car {
name 'HSV Maloo'
make 'Holden'
year 2006
country 'Australia'
}
}
String json = JsonOutput.prettyPrint
(builder.toString())
20. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
TYPE-SAFE BUILDERS (II)
▸ html() is a function with a lambda as an
argument (init)
▸ init’s type is a function type with
receiver, this allows you to:
▸ pass receiver (of type HTML) to
function
▸ call members of instance inside the
function
fun result(args: Array<String>) =
html {
head {
title {”HTML in Kotlin"}
}
body {
...
}
}
fun html(init: HTML.() -> Unit): HTML {
val html = HTML()
html.init()
return html
}
21. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
TYPE-SAFE BUILDERS (III)
▸ HTML class has functions to build the
head and the body elements of the
DSL.
▸ Not shown: classes further down in the
hierarchy:
▸ Head, Body etc.
▸ Complete HTML builder example at:
http://goo.gl/TndcC9
class HTML {
...
fun head(headBuilder: Head.() -> Unit) {
head = Head()
head?.headBuilder()
}
fun body(bodyBuilder: Body.() -> Unit) {
body = Body()
body?.bodyBuilder()
}
}
22. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
JAVA-KOTLIN-INTEROP
▸ Java and Kotlin are fully interoperable from an integration point of view
▸ Your Java code can call and use Kotlin code
▸ Your Kotlin code can call and use Java code
▸ The latter is in particular useful because it means you can continue to use pretty
much any existing Android/Java library
▸ Check out Hendrik Kokocinski’s sample Kotlin app that uses all kinds of well
known Android/Java libs: https://goo.gl/xdYqf5
23. LANGUAGE IDIOMS & CONCEPTS
OVERVIEW
▸ Immutability
▸ String templates & Enum classes
▸ Null safety
▸ Properties and Fields
▸ Type inference and casts
▸ Data classes
▸ Syntactic sugar (loops, ranges etc)
▸ Extension functions
▸ Lambdas
▸ Collection API
▸ Type-safe builders
▸ Java-Kotlin-Interop
26. KOTLIN AND ANDROID
PROJECT SETUP
▸ Use Android Studio 2.x or IntelliJ 2016
▸ Install Kotlin plugin (comes within “Jetbrains plugins”)
▸ Gradle dependencies project-level:
▸ classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.0.4"
▸ Gradle dependencies module-level:
▸ compile 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.0.4'
▸ apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
▸ main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin'
27. KOTLIN AND ANDROID
KOTLIN EXTENSIONS FOR ANDROID
▸ Provides of a set of synthetic properties that bind views to those properties
▸ Alternative to Butter Knife-style bindings, no need for additional runtime
library (Kotlin Extensions for Android are a Kotlin compiler plugin)
▸ import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.<layout>.*
▸ import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.<layout>
▸ usage: <componentid>.doSomething()
30. ANKO DSL
WHAT IS A DSL?
▸ Domain-Specific Language
▸ Limited expressiveness:
▸ DSLs are usually not general-purpose languages
▸ strongly focussed on a particular domain
▸ examples: SQL, Ant XML, XSLT, Gradle etc.
31. ANKO DSL
A DSL FOR LAYOUTS
▸ The most important element of Anko is the Layout DSL
▸ Idea: replace XML layout definitions by Kotlin code - without having to build
the layout in a fully programmatic sense
▸ Anko DSL is modular and extensible
33. ANKO DSL
PROGRAMMATIC LAYOUT IN KOTLIN
val act = this
val layout = LinearLayout(act)
layout.orientation = LinearLayout.VERTICAL
val name = EditText(act)
val button = Button(act)
button.text = "Say Hello"
button.setOnClickListener {
Toast.makeText(act, "Hello, ${name.text}!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
}
layout.addView(name)
layout.addView(button)
35. ANKO DSL
ANKO DSL INTERNALS
▸ Anko DSL example from previous slide looks very similar to the earlier HTML
builder example
▸ Anko uses extension functions arranged into type-safe builders and lambdas
▸ You don’t have to write all those extensions by hand though - Anko generates
them based on the Android SDK’s android.jar
36. ANKO DSL
GETTING STARTED WITH ANKO DSL (I)
▸ Depending on minSdkVersion of project, import:
compile "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-sdk{15|19|21|23}:0.9"
▸ If the project uses an Android Support library, import matching Anko library:
compile "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-recyclerview-v7:0.9"
37. ANKO DSL
GETTING STARTED WITH ANKO DSL (II)
▸ General approach:
▸ Anko DSL automatically becomes
available in onCreate() in an Activity
▸ no need for setContentView(), Anko
DSL also automatically sets the
content view for activities
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
verticalLayout {
padding = dip(30)
editText {
hint = "Name"
textSize = 24f
}
editText {
hint = "Password"
textSize = 24f
}
button("Login") {
textSize = 26f
}
}
}
38. ANKO DSL
ANKO DSL IN FRAGMENTS
▸ In fragments, use
onCreateView(…)
▸ Returns UI {…}.view:
▸ mandatory before Anko 0.8
▸ works well for Fragments
▸ createTodo() is a fragment-private
method
override fun onCreateView(inflater: LayoutInflater?,
container: ViewGroup?,
savedInstanceState: Bundle?): View? {
return UI {
verticalLayout {
padding = dip(24)
var title = editText {
id = R.id.title
hintResource = R.string.hint
}
...
button {
id = R.id.add
textResource = R.string.add
onClick { view -> createTodo(title, desc) }
}
}
}.view
}
39. ANKO DSL
ANKO COMPONENTS
class EditFragmentUI : AnkoComponent<EditFragment> {
override fun createView(ui: AnkoContext<EditFragment>) = with(ui) {
verticalLayout {
padding = dip(24)
var title = editText {
id = R.id.title
hintResource = R.string.hint
}
...
button {
id = R.id.add
textResource = R.string.add
onClick { view -> ui.owner.createTodoFrom(title, desc) }
}
}
}
}
override fun onCreateView(...)= EditFragmentUI().createView(AnkoContext.create(ctx,this))
40. ANKO DSL
EXTENDING ANKOS DSL FUNCTIONALITY
▸ Multiple ways to do this:
▸ insert an existing XML layout into an Anko DSL declaration:
▸ adding new DSL elements to the language
include<View>(R.layout.mylayout) { ... }
inline fun ViewManager.customView(theme: Int = 0) = customView(theme) {}
inline fun ViewManager.customView(theme: Int = 0, init: CustomView.() -> Unit) =
ankoView({ CustomView(it) }, theme, init)
inline fun Activity.customView(theme: Int = 0) = customView(theme) {}
inline fun Activity.customView(theme: Int = 0, init: CustomView.() -> Unit) =
ankoView({ CustomView(it) }, theme, init)
41. ANKO DSL
THERE’S MORE
▸ Intent wrappers for various purposes: e.g. sendSMS(number, [text])
▸ Intent builders
▸ Service shortcuts
▸ Configuration qualifiers: configuration(screenSize = ScreenSize.LARGE,
orientation = Orientation.LANDSCAPE) { … }
▸ Asynchronous tasks
▸ SQLLite
44. LIBRARIES AND TOOLS
KOTTER KNIFE (AND BUTTER KNIFE)
▸ Kotter Knife provides view binding in a similar way to Butter Knife for Android/
Java
▸ Why *Knife over KAE?
▸ Porting code from Java/Butter Knife to Kotlin
▸ Features like listener binding and resources binding that don’t exist in KAE.
▸ Sample code for Butter Knife/Kotlin in the official Jetbrains Kotlin Examples repo
(https://goo.gl/rH7vBu)
45. LIBRARIES AND TOOLS
KOTTER KNIFE VS BUTTER KNIFE VS KAE (I)
findViewById(R.id.send).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Log.d("MainActivity", "onClick: send")
}
});
@OnClick(R.id.send)
void clickSend(View v) {
Log.d("MainActivity", "onClick: send")
}
46. LIBRARIES AND TOOLS
KOTTER KNIFE VS BUTTER KNIFE VS KAE (II)
findViewById(R.id.send).setOnClickListener { view -> Log.d("MainActivity",
"onClick: send") };
val btnSend: Button by bindView(R.id.send)
btnSend.setOnClickListener({ view -> Log.d("MainActivity", "onClick: send") })
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.activity_main.*
btn_send.setOnClickListener({ view -> Log.d("MainActivity", "onClick: send") })
47. LIBRARIES AND TOOLS
KANDROID
▸ View binding (again)
▸ TextWatcher
▸ SeekBar Extension
▸ SearchView Extension
▸ Shortcuts to system services
▸ Logging
▸ Dealing with Intents
▸ SDK Version API (from/to)
▸ Thread management
48. LIBRARIES AND TOOLS
KOVENANT
▸ Core: foundations of a Promise
framework
▸ Tasks & Callbacks
▸ Chaining (Then, ThenApply)
▸ Lazy Promises
▸ Cancelling and Voiding
▸ Combine: combines 2-20 promises
▸ Functional: adds map, bind and
apply to support more advanced
HOF constructs in Kovenant
▸ JVM: Executors and Throttles (thread
pools)
▸ Android: UI callbacks and interacting
with UI Thread
51. FINAL THOUGHTS
PERFORMANCE
▸ Runtime is pretty much on-par with Java
▸ Pre Kotlin 1.0.2: Build process was slower than a comparable app in Java -
mainly due to how the Kotlin compiler works (no partial builds/compilation)
▸ Kotlin libraries do add to the size of the application as well as to the method
count
▸ Kotlin runtime + stdlib are similar in method count to support-v4 or play-
services-base and add significantly less than Scala or Groovy
52. FINAL THOUGHTS
LANGUAGE AND MATURITY
▸ Kotlin 1.0 was a big step for the language
▸ Surprisingly mature for a 1.0 release (but 5+ years in the making), full of great
concepts and idioms, getting better with each release
▸ Anko is very stable given it’s still a 0.x release
▸ Anko makes UI declaration actually pleasurable but offers way more than only
a layout DSL
53. FINAL THOUGHTS
WHAT DID WE LEARN?
▸ What is Kotlin?
▸ Language idioms & concepts
▸ Kotlin and Android
▸ Anko DSL
▸ Libraries and Tools
▸ Final thoughts