Use Cases
Explore the versatility of extension functions for simplifying complex operations, enhancing API interfaces, and streamlining data transformations.
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Simplifying complex operations
The most important use case for extensions is adding methods and properties to APIs that we don’t control. A good example is displaying a toast
or hiding a view on Android. Both these operations are unnecessarily complicated, so we like to define extensions to simplify them.
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