Most Android developers are familiar with Kotlin and use it every day with great success (and joy!). But the bloodline of the language extends well beyond Android! From cross-platform development, to the desktop, to the web, to backends, Kotlin’s pedigree as a versatile language puts all us developers in a great position to leverage existing knowledge for a variety of tasks outside a mobile engineer’s comfort zone. In this session we’ll use Kotlin, Ktor and coroutines to write a backend for our splendid fictional mobile app product: PushBeat.
After learning the basics of a RESTful API, we’ll see what Ktor takes care of for us, what features may be helpful for our mobile projects, and how little we actually need to learn to be a productive backend engineer in no time!
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The original deck (Keynote 10.0) is available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhohmdi81sxah34/Ktor%20to%20your%20heart%27s%20content.key.zip?dl=0
The recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8RA-3t0jGA
The sample project is here: https://github.com/rock3r/pushbeat