Marcin Moskala is an experienced Android developer who is always looking for ways to improve. He has been passionate about Kotlin since its early beta release. He writes articles for trade press and speaks at programming conferences.
Marcin is quite active in the programming and open source community, and is also passionate about cognitive and data science. You can visit his website (marcinmoskala.com), or follow him on GitHub (MarcinMoskala) and on Twitter (@marcinmoskala).
I would like to thank my co-workers in Gamekit, Docplanner, and Apreel. I especially want to thank my supervisors, who were not only supportive, but who are also a constant source of knowledge and inspiration: Mateusz Mikulski, Krzyysztof Wolniak, Bartek Wilczynski, and Rafal Trzeciak.
I would like to thank Marek Kaminski, Gleb Smirnov, Jacek Jablonski, and Maciej Gorski for the corrections, and Dariusz Bacinski and James Shvarts for reviewing the code of the example application.
I would like to thank my family and my girlfriend - Maja Markiewicz - for their support and help. I especially want to thank them for making an environment that supports passion and self-realization.
Igor Wojda is an experienced engineer with over 11 years of experience in software development. His adventure with Android started a few years ago, and he is currently working as a senior Android developer in the healthcare industry. Igor has been deeply interested in Kotlin development since long before the 1.0 version was officially released, and he is an active member of the Kotlin community. He enjoys sharing his passion for coding with developers.
To learn more about him, you can visit him on Medium (@igorwojda) and follow him on Twitter (@igorwojda).
I would like to thank the amazing team at Babylon, who are not only professionals but also inspiring and very helpful people, especially Mikolaj Leszczynski, Sakis Kaliakoudas, Simon Attard, Balachandar Kolathur Mani, Sergio Carabantes, Joao Alves, Tomas Navickas, Mario Sanoguera, and Sebastien Rouif.
I offer thanks to all the reviewers, especially technical reviewer Stepan Goncharov, Mikhail Glukhikh, and my colleagues who gave us feedback on the drafts, especially Micha? Jankowski.
I am also thankful to my family for all of their love and support. I'd like to thank my parents for allowing me to follow my ambitions throughout my childhood and for my education.
Thanks also go to JetBrains for creating this awesome language and to the Kotlin community for sharing knowledge and being helpful, open, and inspiring. This book could not have been written without you!
I offer special thanks to my friends, especially Konrad Hamela, Marcin Sobolski, Maciej Gierasimiuk, Rafal Cupial, Michal Mazur, and Edyta Skiba for their friendship, inspiration, and continuous support. I value your advice immensely.