Kotlin greatly reduces the verbosity of source code. With Google having announced their support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time learn how to create apps from scratch with KotlinKotlin Programming By Example takes you through the building blocks of Kotlin, such as functions and classes.
For a quick start to Android development, we look at building a classic game, Tetris, and elaborate on object-oriented programming in Kotlin. Before moving onto the third app, we take a look at data persistent methods, helping us learn about the storage and retrieval of useful applications.
Our final app is a place reviewer: a web application that will make use of the Google Maps API and Place Picker.By the end of this book, you will have gained experience of of creating and deploying Android applications using Kotlin.