Let Kotlin Come To You

Kotlin is a statically typed, multi-platform language, developed by JetBrains. It’s use has increased dramatically in the past year. What does the language offer us, and why might we choose it? In this talk we’ll go over some of the basics of Kotlin, the benefits, and how we can use it in our day to day development. You will walk away from this talk with the tools you need to get started learning and building with Kotlin, whether you’re working with the JVM, JavaScript, or native.

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1. LET KOTLIN COME TO YOU VICTORIA GONDA VICTORIAGONDA.COM
2. @TTGonda WHO AM I? ▸ Android Engineer at Buffer ▸ Author at Ray Wenderlich ▸ Chicago ▸ Dancer
3. @TTGonda
4. “STATICALLY TYPED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR MODERN MULTIPLATFORM APPLICATIONS” kotlinlang.org
5. @TTGonda KOTLIN ▸ Developed by JetBrains ▸ Available for JVM, Android, JavaScript, and Native ▸ Concise, safe interoperable, tool-friendly ▸ Built in IDE support (with JetBrains products)
6. @TTGonda KOTLIN ▸ Strong, static, inferred, null safe typing ▸ Immutability by default ▸ Smart casting ▸ Higher order functions ▸ Boilerplate reduction
7. TYPING
8. @TTGonda STATICALLY TYPED final String name = "Victoria"; val name = "Victoria"
9. @TTGonda NULL TYPING val icecream: IceCream?
10. @TTGonda icecream.flavor
11. @TTGonda if (icecream != null) { return icecream.flavor } else { return null }
12. @TTGonda SAFE CALL OPERATOR return icecream?.flavor
13. @TTGonda !! OPERATOR return icecream!!.flavor
14. @TTGonda ELVIS OPERATOR return icecream?.flavor ?: "Chocolate Chip"
15. @TTGonda NULL SAFE SCOPING WITH HIGHER ORDER FUNCTIONS return icecream?.let({ nonNullIceCream ->
 nonNullIceCream.flavor })
 return icecream?.let({ it.flavor })
 return icecream?.let { it.flavor }
 return icecream?.let(IceCream::flavor)
16. IMMUTABILITY
17. @TTGonda val conference = "GOTO Chicago" conference = "GOTO Chicago 2018”
18. @TTGonda var conference = "GOTO Chicago" conference = "GOTO Chicago 2018”
19. @TTGonda val readOnlylist = listOf(1, 2, 3) val mutableList = mutableListOf("a", "b", “c")
20. SMART CASTING
21. @TTGonda SMART CASTING class Conference(val year: String): Event() fun smartCasting(event: Event) { if (event is Conference) { event.year } }
22. BOILERPLATE REDUCTION
23. @TTGonda class Cupcake( val flavor: String, var icing: String? ) CLASSES
24. @TTGonda public final class Cupcake { @NotNull private final String flavor; @Nullable private String icing; @NotNull public final String getFlavor() {} @Nullable public final String getIcing() {} public final void setIcing(@Nullable String var1) {} public Cupcake(@NotNull String flavor, @Nullable String icing) {} }
25. @TTGonda data class Cupcake( val flavor: String, var icing: String? )
26. @TTGonda public final class Cupcake { // … @NotNull public final String component1() {} @Nullable public final String component2() {} @NotNull public final Cupcake copy(@NotNull String flavor, @Nullable String icing) {} public String toString() {} public int hashCode() {} public boolean equals(Object var1) {} }
27. SEALED CLASSES
28. @TTGonda ENUMS enum class GetConferenceState { SUCCESS, ERROR, PROGRESS }
29. @TTGonda SEALED CLASSES sealed class GetConferenceState { class Success(val result: Conference): GetConferenceState() data class Error(val errorMessage: String): GetConferenceState() object InProgress: GetConferenceState() }
30. @TTGonda SEALED CLASSES when(state) { is GetConferenceState.Success -> showConference(state.conference) is GetConferenceState.Error -> showError(state.errorMessage) is GetConferenceState.InProgress -> showLoading() }
31. @TTGonda AND MORE!
32. @TTGonda
33. WHERE CAN KOTLIN BE USED?
34. @TTGonda WHERE CAN KOTLIN BE USED? ▸ JVM, Android, JavaScript, Native ▸ Mobile, Server, Browser, Views ▸ IntelliJ, Android Studio, Eclipse, Standalone Compilers ▸ Kotlin all the things! ▸ Try it out in the browser (try.kotlinlang.org)
35. @TTGonda JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE ▸ Use on the server, Android, Java applications ▸ Spring Boot, for example ▸ Anywhere the JVM lives ▸ Interoperable with Java ▸ More flexible and concise than Java ▸ Less feature bloat than Scala
36. @TTGonda JVM - INTELLIJ
37. @TTGonda JVM - INTELLIJ ▸ New Kotlin file in src directory fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Hello GOTO Chicago") } ▸ Run! ▶
38. @TTGonda JVM - GRADLE ▸ Set up gradle-kotlin plugin and apply it. Add dependencies. repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib" } ▸ Alternatively in IntelliJ, Tools > Kotlin > Configure Kotlin in Project
39. @TTGonda JVM - ECLIPSE ▸ Download plugin from Marketplace ▸ File > New > Kotlin Project
40. @TTGonda JVM - ECLIPSE ▸ New Kotlin file in src directory fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Hello GOTO Chicago") } ▸ Run As > Kotlin Application ▶
41. @TTGonda JVM - COMMAND LINE ▸ Install Kotlin // hello.kt fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Hello GOTO Chicago") } ▸ Run! ▶ $ kotlinc hello.kt -include-runtime -d hello.jar $ java -jar hello.jar
42. @TTGonda JAVA EQUIVALENT public final class HelloKt { public static final void main(@NotNull String[] args) { Intrinsics.checkParameterIsNotNull(args, "args"); String var1 = "Hello GOTO Chicago"; System.out.println(var1); } }
43. @TTGonda CONVERTING JAVA TO KOTLIN ▸ Android Studio and IntelliJ have built in conversion ▸ Three ways to get there ▸ Code > Convert Java File to Kotlin File ▸ ⎇⇧⌘K ▸ Search for action “Convert File to Kotlin File
44. @TTGonda JVM - OTHER OPTIONS ▸ Ant ▸ Maven ▸ Griffon
45. @TTGonda ANDROID ▸ More flexible and concise than Java ▸ Interoperable with Java ▸ Can use all the same libraries ▸ Supported in Android Studio
46. @TTGonda ANDROID STUDIO
47. @TTGonda JAVASCRIPT ▸ Use in browser, and any JS framework ▸ ReactJS, for example ▸ Type safe ▸ Interop with JavaScript
48. @TTGonda JS - INTELLIJ
49. @TTGonda JS - INTELLIJ ▸ New Kotlin file in src directory fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Hello GOTO Chicago") }
50. @TTGonda JS - INTELLIJ ▸ Create index.html that runs script <script type="text/javascript" src=“out/production/sampleapp/lib/kotlin.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src=“out/production/sampleapp/sampleapp.js"> </script> ▸ Build > Build Application ▸ Open index.html in browser ▶
51. @TTGonda JS - COMMAND LINE ▸ Library code is in library.kt kotlinc-js -output sample-library.js -meta-info library.kt ▸ Output: sample-library.js sample-library.meta.js
52. @TTGonda JS - OTHER OPTIONS ▸ Gradle ▸ Maven
53. @TTGonda VIEWS ▸ Use kotlinx.html library to interact with, and build HTML views ▸ Use Anko to build views for Android ▸ You can use Kotlin for the logic of what to display in your views!
54. @TTGonda VIEWS ▸ kotlinx.html val myDiv = document.create.div { p { +"text inside" } }
55. @TTGonda NATIVE ▸ Available for macOS, Linux and Windows ▸ LLVM ▸ Interop with C libraries
56. @TTGonda NATIVE - COMMAND LINE ▸ Download compiler for your OS ▸ Create file hello.kt fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Hello GOTO Chicago") } ▸ Compile
 konanc hello.kt ▸ Run ▶
 /hello.kexe
57. @TTGonda NATIVE - OTHER OPTIONS ▸ CLion IDE ▸ Gradle
58. MULTI PLATFORM
59. @TTGonda MULTI PLATFORM ▸ Share logic across platforms ▸ Write once, use everywhere ▸ Keep native for any framework components ▸ Note: experimental
60. @TTGonda MULTI PLATFORM ▸ Common module with code shared across platforms ▸ Platform specific module ▸ “Interface” for the common code to call platform specific implementations http://developine.com/kotlin-native-ios-development-multiplatform-project/
61. @TTGonda MULTI PLATFORM - INTELLIJ
62. @TTGonda common
 Kotlin JVM
 Kotlin JS
 Kotlin *.class *.js
63. @TTGonda // In common module expect class Dog(bar: String) { fun bark() } fun main(args: Array<String>) { Dog(“Spot").bark() } // In platform module actual class Dog actual constructor(val name: String) { actual fun bark() { println(“$name says ruff”) } }
64. @TTGonda GET STARTED! ▸ kotlinlang.org docs ▸ try.kotlinlang.org to try Kotlin in the browser ▸ kotlin.link to find anything Kotlin you might want ▸ github.com/vgonda/Talk-Resources my resources from this talk (and others) ▸ Kotlin Slack ▸ Find me online!
65. THANKS! VICTORIA GONDA VICTORIAGONDA.COM