Quick Links for Android Kotlin

This post has a collection of useful links related to development of Android applications using Kotlin.

Getting Started with Kotlin

1. Kotlin Reference Manual
1. PDF Version 

Free Online Courses for Learning Kotlin

1. Learn Kotlin for Android
   
2. Developing Android Apps with Kotlin by Google - Udacity 
3. Kotlin Bootcamp by Google - Udacity
4. Kotlin Koans - Interactive Course
1. Edu Tools Plugin for Android Studio
5. Kotlin Fundamentals - SmartHerd  - Youtube
6. Learn Kotlin with Keddit - Medium

Run Online

1.  Kotlin Playground - Edit, Run & Share Kotlin Code

Useful How Tos

1. Adding Internet Permission for your Android Application 
2. Leveraging Power of Functions in Kotlin
3. API Request in Android using Kotlin

 Useful Extensions (Kotlin + Java)

• Anko

•  Anko Commons: a lightweight library full of helpers for intents, dialogs, logging and so on;
• Anko Layouts: a fast and type-safe way to write dynamic Android layouts;
• Anko SQLite: a query DSL and parser collection for Android SQLite;
• Anko Coroutines: utilities based on the kotlinx.coroutines library.

• Parsing JSON

• Using org.json (built-in) - Example
• GSON - Example
• Jackson 
• JSON Path (Similar to XPath for XML) 

•  Web Scraping
• JSoup - Example
• Picasso -  A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android

Reusable Packages

1. Open Source Kotlin Reusable Packages 

Other Useful Links

1. Additional Kotlin Resources
2. Popular Android Frameworks