Backend Engineering for Android Developers

With Kotlin growing in popularity, it's about time we start looking at Kotlin as a language that has superpowers.
When we talk about backend technologies, we have a lot of languages/frameworks like Go, Java, Python, etc.
But when we talk about Kotlin as a backend language, it might raise a lot of eyebrows
But let me try to convince you that Kotlin is definitely a good choice for Backend! We will talk about Ktor (A framework for Kotlin) to build a fast backend that can be re-used on your client-side

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1. Backend for
   Android Engineers
   

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2. 01.
   About me
   

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3. 3
   Himanshu Singh
   Android @Clue, GDE - Android,Kotlin
   

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4. 4
   Agenda: Backend for Android Engineers
   01. Intro
   Kotlin
   Android?
   Backend
   Benefits
   02. Kotlin Frameworks
   Ktor
   Spring Boot
   Vertx. Etc.
   03. Ktor
   Why?
   How?
   Benefits
   04. Tutorial
   Setting up
   Restful APIs
   Routing
   HTTP Verbs
   Features
   Location
   Status Pages
   05. Why to use as Android Developer?
   

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5. 01.
   Introduction
   

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6. 6
   Introduction
   01.
   Kotlin?
   

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7. 7
   Introduction
   01.
   Kotlin? Android?
   

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8. 8
   Introduction
   01.
   Kotlin? Android? Backend
   

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9. Benefits
   1.
   2.
   3.
   4.
   5.
   Expressive
   Tooling
   Migration
   6.
   Scalable!
   Community Support
   Ease of Learning
   

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10. 02.
    Frameworks
    

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11. Frameworks
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    Ktor
    Micronauts
    Vertx
    Spring Boot
    A lot more!
    

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12. 03.
    Ktor
    

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13. 13
    
    Ktor
    Why?
    

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14. Ktor
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    Light weighted
    Backed by Jetbrains
    Coroutine support
    Open sourced
    Scalable ->
    ∞
    

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15. 04.
    Tutorial.
    

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16. 16
    
    Tutorial: Web
    https://start.ktor.io/
    

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17. 17
    
    Tutorial: Web
    

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18. 18
    
    Tutorial: Web
    Create Project
    

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19. 19
    
    Tutorial: Web
    Create Project
    

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20. 20
    
    Tutorial: Output
    

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21. Code run through!
    

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22. 22
    
    fun main() {
    embeddedServer(Netty, port = 8080, host = "0.0.0.0") {
    configureRouting()
    }.start(wait = true)
    }
    

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    fun main() {
    embeddedServer(Netty, port = 8080, host = "0.0.0.0") {
    configureRouting()
    }.start(wait = true)
    }
    

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    fun main() {
    embeddedServer(Netty, port = 8080, host = "0.0.0.0") {
    configureRouting()
    }.start(wait = true)
    }
    

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25. 05.
    Routing
    

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26. 26
    
    fun Application.configureRouting() {
    // Starting point for a Ktor app:
    routing {
    get("/") {
    call.respondText("Hello World!")
    }
    }
    }
    

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    fun Application.configureRouting() {
    // Starting point for a Ktor app:
    routing {
    get("/") {
    call.respondText("Hello World!")
    }
    }
    }
    

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28. 28
    
    fun Application.configureRouting() {
    // Starting point for a Ktor app:
    routing {
    get("/") {
    call.respondText("Hello World!")
    }
    }
    }
    

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29. 29
    
    fun Application.configureRouting() {
    // Starting point for a Ktor app:
    routing {
    get("/") {
    call.respondText("Hello World!")
    }
    }
    }
    

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    fun Application.configureRouting() {
    // Starting point for a Ktor app:
    routing {
    get("/") {
    call.respondText("Hello World!")
    }
    }
    }
    

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31. HTTP Verbs
    

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32. HTTP Verbs
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    GET
    PUT/PATCH
    DELETE
    POST
    

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33. 33
    
    routing {
    get("/") { //code }
    post("/") { //code }
    delete("/") { //code }
    put("/") { //code }
    }
    

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34. 06.
    Plugins
    

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35. “
    Set of pre-coded packages
    to help you ship/build faster
    

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36. 36
    
    fun Application.dummyPlugin(){
    install(//the plugin)
    }
    

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37. 37
    
    fun main() {
    embeddedServer(Netty, port = 8080, host = "0.0.0.0") {
    configureRouting()
    dummyPlugin()
    }.start(wait = true)
    }
    

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    fun Application.contentNegotiation(){
    install(ConentNegotiation){
    gson()
    }
    }
    

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39. 07.
    Real world example.
    

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    fun Application.configureRouting(){
    post("/create-user"){
    val user = call.receive()
    //create user
    call.respond(user)
    }
    }
    

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    fun Application.configureRouting(){
    post("/create-user"){
    val user = call.receive()
    //create user
    call.respond(user)
    }
    }
    

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    {
    "name":"Himanshu",
    "age":26,
    "job":"Clue"
    }
    data class User(
    val name:String,
    val age:Int,
    val job:String
    )
    

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43. 43
    
    https://www.google.com/search?q=droidcon+berlin
    

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44. 44
    
    https://www.google.com/search?q=droidcon+berlin
    

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    fun Application.configureRouting(){
    get("/search"){
    val param = call.request.queryParameters[“q”]
    //code
    call.respond(result)
    }
    }
    

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46. 08.
    Locations
    

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47. “
    A mechanism to create routes in a typed way, for
    both: constructing URLs and reading the
    parameters.
    

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    fun Application.module() {
    install(Locations)
    // ...
    }
    

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    @Location("/list/{name}/page/{page}")
    data class Listing(val name: String, val page: Int)
    

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    routing {
    get { listing ->
    call.respondText("Listing ${listing.name}, page ${listing.page}")
    }
    }
    

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51. 09.
    Status Page
    

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52. “
    Response to any failure state/Exception.
    

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    fun Application.module() {
    install(StatusPages)
    // ...
    }
    

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    install(StatusPages) {
    exception { cause ->
    call.respond(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
    }
    exception { cause ->
    call.respond(HttpStatusCode.Forbidden)
    }
    }
    

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55. 10.
    Libraries Available for
    Awesomeness
    

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56. Why?
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    KMongo/Expose
    In build Authentication/Auth
    Velocity / Kotlin HTML
    Gson/Jackson
    Swagger, ORM etc.
    

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57. 10.
    Why use it as android Dev?
    

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58. Why?
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    Uses our fav. Kotlin
    KMM support
    Easy learning curve.
    Supports JVM Libraries
    Makes you a full stack developer.
    

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59. 11.
    Summary
    

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60. Summary
    1.
    2.
    Use Kotlin to do anything
    Build your own backend
    

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61. 12.
    Resources
    

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62. 62
    
    Resources
    https://ktor.io/
    https://himanshoe.com
    

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63. Danke Schön! Questions?
    

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