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Kotlin Programming By Example

You're reading from Kotlin Programming By Example Build real-world Android and web applications the Kotlin way

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788474542

Length 500 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Iyanu Adelekan

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. The Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Building an Android Application – Tetris

3. Implementing Tetris Logic and Functionality

4. Designing and Implementing the Messenger Backend with Spring Boot 2.0

5. Building the Messenger Android App – Part I

6. Building the Messenger Android App – Part II

7. Storing Information in a Database

8. Securing and Deploying an Android App

9. Creating the Place Reviewer Backend with Spring

10. Implementing the Place Reviewer Frontend

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Working with a SQLite database

SQLite is a popular relational database management system (RDBMS) that, unlike many RDBMS systems, is not a client-server database engine. Instead, a SQLite database is embedded directly into an application.

Android provides full support for SQLite. SQLite databases are accessible throughout an Android project by classes. Note that in Android, a database is only accessible to the application that created it.

The use of the Room persistence library is the recommended method of working with SQLite in Android. The first step to work with room in Android is the inclusion of its necessary dependencies in a project's build.gradle script:

implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:1.0.0-alpha9-1"
implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:rxjava2:1.0.0-alpha9-1"
implementation "io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxandroid:2.0.1"
kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:1.0.0-alpha9-1"

Entities can easily be created with the help of Room. All entities must be annotated...

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Authors (1)

Iyanu Adelekan

Iyanu Adelekan

Iyanu Adelekan is a software engineer who enjoys solving problems in the web and Android application domains. He loves working on open source projects and is the author and lead maintainer of Kanary, a Kotlin web framework for building RESTful application programming interfaces. In addition to building software, he is passionate about knowledge sharing and algorithms. He enjoys reading sci-fi and playing chess in his spare time.

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