Kotlin tips

null + null in Kotlin

What happens when you add null + null in Kotlin, and what does it return? Sebastian addresses this mystery in our latest quick tip. Along the way, he also shows why there’s no reason to be scared of nullables:

Deduplicating collection items

Got a Kotlin collection that contains duplicates? Need a collection with only unique items? Let Sebastian show you how to remove duplicates from your lists, or turn them into sets in this Kotlin tip:

The suspend and inline mystery

How come functions like repeat(), map() and filter() accept suspending functions in their lambdas, even though their signatures aren’t coroutines-aware? In this episode of Kotlin Tips Sebastian solves the riddle: it has something to do with the inline modifier:

Unshadowing declarations with their fully qualified name

Shadowing means having two declarations in a scope have the same name. So, how do you pick? In this episode of Kotlin Tips Sebastian shows you a simple Kotlin trick to call exactly the function that you need, using the power of fully qualified names:

Return and throw with the Elvis operator

Elvis has entered the building once more! Seb explains why the operator is named after the famous singer, and how you can use ?: in Kotlin to return or throw. The magic behind the scenes? The Nothing type.

Destructuring declarations

With destructuring declarations in Kotlin, you can create multiple variables from a single object, all at once. In this video Sebastian shows you a selection of things that can be destructured – pairs, lists, maps, and more. And what about your own objects? Kotlin’s component functions provide an answer for those as well:

Operator functions with nullable values

In Kotlin, you can override operators like addition and subtraction for your classes and supply your own logic. But what if you want to allow null values, both on their left and right sides? In this video, Sebastian answers this question:

Timing code

Watch Seb give a quick overview of the measureTimedValue() function, and learn how you can time your code:

Improving loops

In this video, Sebastian will demonstrate how to improve loops to make your code more readable, understandable, and concise:

Strings

In this episode, Kate Petrova shows three tips to help you work with Strings in Kotlin:

Doing more with the Elvis operator

In this video, Sebastian will show how to add more logic to the Elvis operator, such as logging to the right part of the operator:

Kotlin collections

In this episode, Kate Petrova shows three tips to help you work with Kotlin Collections:

What’s next?

• See the complete list of Kotlin Tips in our YouTube playlist

• Learn how to write idiomatic Kotlin code for popular cases