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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

You're reading from Kotlin Programming Cookbook Explore more than 100 recipes that show how to build robust mobile and web applications with Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Android

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788472142

Length 434 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Aanand Shekhar Roy

Rashi Karanpuria

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Installation and Working with Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Control Flow

3. Classes and Objects

4. Functions

5. Object-Oriented Programming

6. Collections Framework

7. Handling File Operations in Kotlin

8. Anko Commons and Extension Function

9. Anko Layouts

10. Databases and Dependency Injection

11. Networking and Concurrency

12. Lambdas and Delegates

13. Testing

14. Web Services with Kotlin

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How to make an endless list using RecyclerView

What do the Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter feeds have in common? They all have virtually infinite content to show you while you keep on scrolling down and down for more. There's no doubt that this is a great way to engage users on your platform.

In this recipe, we will see how to make an endless list using RecyclerView. There are many use cases of it, for example, social media, e-commerce application, or any content-based apps.

We will create a simple app, which will load a small set of data in the beginning, but once the user scrolls to the bottom of the content, we will fetch another set of data and append to it, giving an illusion of infinite content to the user. So let's get started!

Getting ready

We will be using Android Studio 3.0; ensure that you have its latest version.

You'll also need to include RecyclerView in your build.gradle file, which you can add as follows:

compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:26.1.0'

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Authors (2)

Aanand Shekhar Roy

Aanand Shekhar Roy

Aanand Shekhar Roy is an Android developer working for Joist in Toronto, Canada. His mobile engineering career includes working for various startups and companies, such as U.S.-based startups Consciously.Life, PushCoin, and NextFan-FantasyIndyCar. He is also a mentor for the Associate Android Developer Fast Track program by Google on Udacity and mentors a team of 20 software developers.

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