Nate Ebel - Mastering Kotlin: Learn Advanced Kotlin Programming Techniques to Build Apps for Android, IOS, and the Web

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Nate Ebel is a software developer who enjoys building great software and helping others do the same. He has worked with Android since its early days, across a variety of projects, from creative and educational apps, mapping and navigation applications, to the evolution of robotic controllers.

Nate has a passion for technology, education, and software development, and enjoys opportunities to combine the three. He enjoys being involved in the Android developer community and is an active contributor through conference speaking, blogging, and event organizing.

He is working to help himself and others dream, learn, and create in an effort to positively impact others.

Ashok Kumar Srinivas is a Google-certified Android developer from Bengaluru, India. He is an expert in the web and mobile engineering domains. He has authored books on Android Wear and Firebase, and has reviewed books on subjects including web and mobile applications. He is one of the top open source contributors. He is a passionate YouTuber and runs a channel called AndroidABCD. He is also a speaker at international conferences. He has a keen interest in the quality, architecture, and unit testing of the code. When he can find the time, he writes and reviews books. He also likes to travel inside India and further afield.

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This book is written for software developers looking to expand their experience and understanding of the Kotlin programming language. It aims to bridge the gap between simple, practical examples and advanced language topics.

This book is designed to not only demonstrate how to write code in Kotlin, but to help you to understand the history of Kotlin and some of the motivations behind the language itself. Additionally, the book will demonstrate how features of the Kotlin language work behind the scenes. The goal is to help you to more fully understand Kotlin as a whole, rather than just as a language syntax.

Once a strong introduction to Kotlin and its features has been covered, the book will spend several chapters exploring a variety of more advanced topics, including how to build with Kotlin on a variety of platforms. These chapters aim to act as a quick-start guide for understanding what is possible with Kotlin and where and how you can apply the Kotlin language skills that you have learned for the development of real-world applications.

This book is aimed at beginner and intermediate Kotlin developers who are looking to improve their understanding of the language, as well as experienced Java developers looking for simple, practical examples of how to solve familiar problems using Kotlin. You should be familiar with object-oriented programming and have some familiarity with Java.