Level Up your Kotlin game

Most Kotlin features are easy to pick up and obvious in their benefit, but there are a bunch of features sneaking around the standard library and at the language level that are not as prominent. This talk is a grab bag of such features, tips, tricks, and patterns that you can use to bring your Kotlin skill to the next level.

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1. Level Up Your Kotlin Game Useful Kotlin tips you might have missed @YousufHaque
2. Kotlin Type Diamond https://www.slideshare.net/compscicenter/kotlin-2016-mixing-java-and-kotlin
3. Type Inference
4. Type Inference Isn’t Perfect
5. Type Inference Works With Expressions
6. Nothing is a Subtype of Everything
7. Platform Types
8. Platform Types
10. Extension Functions and Properties
11. Lambda Expression Syntax
12. Higher Order Functions
14. Lambda with Receiver
15. Lambda with Receiver Comparison
17. Kotlin Standard Library Extension Functions https://hackernoon.com/kotlin-a-deeper-look-8569d4da36f Lambda With Receiver Lambda With Parameter Returns Receiver Returns Last Expression
18. Let: basically a map function
19. Run: same as let, but change scope
20. Apply: modify something and return it
21. Also: same as apply, but don’t change scope
22. Sealed Classes
23. Sealed Class, When matching, Smart Casting
24. Thank You Twitter: @YousufHaque Github: Yousuf-Haque