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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook Master the powerful Kotlin standard library through practical code examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788837668

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Urbanowicz

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Ranges, Progressions, and Sequences FREE CHAPTER

2. Expressive Functions and Adjustable Interfaces

3. Shaping Code with Kotlin Functional Programming Features

4. Powerful Data Processing

5. Tasteful Design Patterns Adopting Kotlin Concepts

6. Friendly I/O Operations

7. Making Asynchronous Programming Great Again

8. Best Practices for the Android, JUnit, and JVM UI Frameworks

9. Miscellaneous

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Chapter 4. Powerful Data Processing

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Composing and consuming collections the easy way
Filtering datasets
Automatic null removal
Sorting data with custom comparators
Building strings based on dataset elements
Dividing data into subsets
Transforming data with map and flatMap
Folding and reducing datasets
Grouping data

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Authors (1)

Urbanowicz

Urbanowicz

Samuel Urbanowicz is an experienced software engineer skilled in mobile applications and backend development. A fan of modern programming languages, he has been using Kotlin since its beginning. He's always curious to dive into technologies. He is especially passionate about machine learning. Samuel believes that the Kotlin language has great potential for multiplatform development. He has work experience in both big corps and small start-ups. He is an active contributor to open source projects.

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