Where to Go From Here?
Download the final project using the Download Materials button at the top or bottom of this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you learned:
- What enums are and how to use them when you need a predefined set of constants
- How ART and R8 helped reduce the performance hit that used to be a problem with enums in the past
- How to use
when() for flow control using enums
- Why exhaustive code matters and how enums help with this
- How to add extra data to enum constants
- How every enum in Kotlin implements equality automatically
- The use of
name to pass enum cases via Intent
- How to add methods to enums
To learn even more about enums and their functionality, check out the Kotlin and Android: Beyond the Basics with Sealed Classes tutorial.
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