Kotlin Hyderabad: Introduction to Kotlin
Talk details
Title: Introduction to Kotlin
Platform: Youtube live stream
Community: Kotlin Hyderabad
Location: Online
Attendees: 38
Organizers: Rajmahendra & Chaitanya
Abstract
Kotlin is the preferred language for Android Development. With over 2 billion active users, Kotlin enables many developers to deliver software worldwide on Android. With growing number of users migrating to Kotlin, this session aims to cover basics of Kotlin and programming. The talk is intended for beginner level audience and for new comers who want to learn Kotlin.
Coverage
- Why Kotlin
- What is Kotlin
- Facts about Kotlin
- Interoperability & Tools used
- val and var declarations
- Type inference
- Type casting
- Functions in Kotlin
- Nullability and Null-safety
- Data classes and Primitive types
- Lists & Arrays
- if statements and flow control
- for loop and iteration
- Classes and interfaces
Slidedeck
Video
Thoughts
This was my first talk on Kotlin, hope this was helpful to everyone. I’ll be doing more talks like these. Feel free to drop a comment or connect with me on other platforms!