10 posts tagged with "kotlin"

Constructors are regular functions that give a chance to developer to initialise state of class instance. They are completely optional, and it's perfectly valid to have this, although not so useful 😃

If you feel curious how would an implementation of decorator design pattern look like in Kotlin, this might be the right place for you. This example is just a very basic thing that you then tweak until it’s perfect. Pattern definition can be found at Wiki, but what’s important is that you can compose chain of decorators at runtime and in such a way – you can control runtime behavior of your system.

Kotlin language recently gained some traction owing to Google promoting it as a primary language for writing android apps. Kotlin has already been for a while in production owing to it’s creator JetBrains incorporating it in own tools, such as Intellij IDEA and so forth.

Kotlin language can come quite handy write concise and expressive code, without too much boilerplate, while keeping all advantages of being JVM citizen. Let's quickly peek into example of creating Factory method creational design pattern implementation.

Ladies and gents, once again I’m sharing some sample app, this time we are building sample Spring Boot app implemented in Kotlin, talking to http://data.nba.net/ API to help us get some interesting, NBA related data. In this case we’re just listing NBA teams, but you extend this sample even further.

Recently I've started playing with Kotlin programming language, and wanted to give it a try. Kotlin gives us possibility to write quite concise code.

Continuing series of blog posts related to Kotlin, today we’ll together make a sample application showing us how we could automate email sending – using Kotlin programming language. Example is quite simple, and surely – you can enhance it with own features. Application mostly demonstrates compact Kotlin syntax, as well as full compatibility with Java or 3rd party libraries (in this case Apache commons-mail library).

State pattern is a pretty nice solution for solving problems related to changing behavior of some component(class) at runtime, which varies depending on current state of that object.

I thought it would be nice to use advantages of Kotlin language to showcase strategy pattern implementation. In order to get the example running – we need to install kotlin binaries (installation). I’m running simple Kotlin script in this example.

In this, relatively short post, I’ll try to cover some aspects of programming in Kotlin programming language that may give you a better context when deciding upon whether you may like to use it for your next project.

Let’s get started.