Migrating your Android App to Kotlin

On Strategies to apply Kotlin to existing Java code

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1. Migra ng Android Java to Kotlin Presented by Ravindra Kumar ( @ravidsrk )
2. Agenda Steps to Convert Issues Takeaways Eliminate all !! from your Kotlin code
3. Steps to Convert Once you know 1. Convert files, one by one, via “⌥⇧⌘K”, make sure tests s ll pass 2. Go over the Kotlin files and make them more idioma c 3. Repeat step 2 un l you and your code reviewers are happy 4. Ship it
4. Issues Interoperability Generated code is not always nice to look at ‼ Incrementally becoming more idioma c Companion Can Complicate Method Names star ng with get will give nightmares Genrics are hard to get it right No augument captor
5. Takeaways annotationProcessor should be replaced by kapt Tests ease your mind Use mockito-kotlin to solve most of the issues faced while migra ng tests Reading less is not always a bad thing 29% less code compared to Java Configure tests to mock final classes
6. Eliminate all !! from your Kotlin code 1. Use val instead of var 2. Use lateinit 3. Use let func on 4. Use Elvis operator 5. Use build‐in func ons requireNotNull or checkNotNull with accompanied excep on message for easy debugging.
7. Use val instead of var Kotlin makes you think about immutability on the language level and that’s great. val is read‐only, var mutable. If you use them as immutables, you don’t have to care about nullability. Just beware that val can actually be mutable.
8. Use lateinit private var mAdapter: RecyclerAdapter<Transaction>? = null override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) mAdapter = RecyclerAdapter(R.layout.item_transaction) } fun updateTransactions() { mAdapter!!.notifyDataSetChanged() }
9. Use lateinit private lateinit var mAdapter: RecyclerAdapter<Transaction> override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) mAdapter = RecyclerAdapter(R.layout.item_transaction) } fun updateTransactions() { mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged() }
10. Use let func on private var mPhotoUrl: String? = null fun uploadClicked() { if (mPhotoUrl != null) { uploadPhoto(mPhotoUrl!!) } } Replace with private var mPhotoUrl: String? = null fun uploadClicked() { mPhotoUrl?.let { uploadPhoto(it) } }
11. Use Elvis operator fun getUserName(): String { if (mUserName != null) { return mUserName!! } else { return "Anonymous" } } *Replace with fun getUserName(): String { return mUserName ?: "Anonymous" }
12. Use built‐in func ons requireNotNull or checkNotNull uploadPhoto(intent.getStringExtra("PHOTO_URL")!!) Replace with uploadPhoto(requireNotNull(intent.getStringExtra("PHOTO_URL"
13. Final p Don’t try to learn the whole language at once “ “
14. Ques ons