Acknowledgments

First off, a big thank you to the entire Pragmatic Bookshelf team, and especially three particular people. I want to express a great deal of gratitude to my editor, Michael Swaine, for taking this journey with me, supporting me at each step of the process, and sometimes just giving me the “You’re all good, don’t worry” that really I needed. This book would never have been a possibility without Brian MacDonald coming up to me at THAT Conference and saying “Hey, do you want to write a book on Kotlin?”, then working with me through the entire pre-book process. And finally Brian Hogan, who assured me that PragProg was great (turns out they are) and that I could actually do this book (turns out I could).

My sincere appreciation to my tech reviewers: Joe Vetta, Rolando Lopez, Ben Gavin, Brandon Martinez, and Andrew Petersen. The fact that you all took the time to read through my book and help make it better means so much to me, and I’m eternally grateful for that. Also, thank you to Keno Basedow for finding a number of ways I could improve the book and make it clearer during the beta process.

I’ve been lucky enough to have support from everyone around me. This includes the whole Skyline crew, who have been great with this crazy side project of mine. Craig and Joe, for tolerating my incessant “OMG KOTLIN” comments the past few years. Rolando, for being as excited as anyone when I found out the book was happening. And all my friends and family who knowingly (or unknowingly) are part of the book in the Android Baseball League.

As I’m definitely no artist, I needed some help with the icons and logos in the book. Many of them are right from Google’s Material Design library, which can be found inside Android Studio, but I did grab a number from a few sites. The full list can be found in the source code under images/image-rights.txt, but here’s the quick summary: most of the team logos and icons were from http://www.flaticon.com, made by Freepik, Good Ware, Smashicons, smalllikeart, and Vitaly Gorbachev. The Skyline logo is from Skyline Technologies, my company when writing this book, and the People’s Flag of Milwaukee^[1] is used as the Milwaukee Sunrise logo. The scoreboard icon from the ABL app as well as both the dice and coin icons from Penny Drop are from http://www.materialdesignicons.com.

And finally, to my family, I love you all so much:

Mom and Dad, thank you for always being there for me and doing everything possible to help me succeed. Your constant love and support has made me who I am today and is the example I follow now as a father.

Hazel, you’re the coolest kiddo, and I love getting to be your dad. I’m so very proud of you, and hearing you say that you’re proud of me for the book means the world to me.

Emily, thank you for holding down things while I’ve been getting the book done and everything that went with it. There’s no way I could have accomplished this without you saying “You do whatever you need to, I’ve got everything else covered.” There’s so much more I could say, but I’ll just leave it at—you’re the best.