Backend Engineering for Android Developers

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Argues that Kotlin is a practical backend choice and demos building a server with Ktor with Netty from start.ktor.io or the IntelliJ plugin, shows the embeddedServer main loop, routing with get/post/put/delete, type-safe locations, and JSON handling via content negotiation so call.receive maps JSON to data classes and call.respond returns objects. Emphasizes coroutine-based concurrency, mentions Exposed and coroutine-friendly DB libraries, status pages for centralized error responses, and ready-to-run localhost:8080 examples.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 1:04Why Kotlin for backend engineering
3. 3:14Choosing Ktor as backend framework
4. 5:40Creating a Ktor project
5. 7:26Project structure and embedded server
6. 8:28Routing and HTTP verbs in Ktor
7. 12:20Plugins and extensions in Ktor
8. 14:45Handling JSON data in requests
9. 17:14Query parameters and pagination
10. 20:43Type-safe routing with locations
11. 23:13Error handling with status pages
12. 25:21Useful Ktor libraries and tools
13. 26:47Why Android devs should use Ktor
14. 27:49Summary and resources

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