Installation and Working with Environment

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

• Creating Kotlin Android project
• How to use Gradle to run Kotlin code
• How to run a Kotlin compiled class
• How to build a self-executable jar with Gradle and Kotlin
• Reading console input in Kotlin
• Converting Java code to Kotlin and vice versa
• How to write an idiomatic logger with Kotlin
• Escaping for Java identifiers that are keywords in Kotlin
• Disambiguating using the "as" keyword to locally rename the clashing entity
• Doing bit manipulations in Kotlin
• Parsing String to Long, Double, or Int
• Using String templates in Kotlin