Live Templates on Android Studio and IntellliJ to improve your productivity

by Antonio Leiva | Jun 9, 2020 | Development, Kotlin

Live Templates are a way to avoid repetitive code in development environments like Android Studio or IntelliJ. When we are writing code, there are times when certain repetitive code can happen, and there is no way to encapsulate it. For these occasions, Live Templates...

View Binding: The Definitive way to access views on Android

by Antonio Leiva | May 21, 2020 | Development

View Binding is a new view access mechanism that was released in conjunction with Android Studio version 3.6. Historically, there have been many ways to access views in an XML, as the original form, using findViewById, was not particularly comfortable. If we had to...

[LIVE] Answering all your questions: MVVM, Work-Life balance, career progression, football..? 😂

by Antonio Leiva | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog, Kotlin

I got many questions after an Instagram story, and decided to do a Live session answering them all. This time, we covered many things: MVP vs MVVM Rx vs Coroutines Career progression advice Work-life balance, especially during parenthood … And many more. We were...

COIL: The Next-Gen IMAGE LOADER for Android [Coroutines Based!] 🚀

by Antonio Leiva | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog, Kotlin

Coil is a new image loading library for Android development based on Kotlin and coroutines with the goal of making it simple, fast and lightweight. After trying it, I decided to record this video where I show you how to: Setup the library Use it to load images on...

Dependency Injection – All the Must-Know Concepts to start using it

by Antonio Leiva | Jun 26, 2019 | Blog, Development, Kotlin

To understand dependency injection, you first need to learn a set of concepts that will help you realize why you need it and what’s happening under the hood. In this video, I’ll talk about: ✅ What is a dependency ✅ Dependency Inversion...

Living by the code, with Enrique López [Droidkast LIVE 7]

by Antonio Leiva | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog, Interviews

Enrique López is a freelance Android Developer, who also writes books, articles and travels around the world to multiple events while running marathons everywhere! Now, he’s presenting his new book, “Living by the code”, where he’s put together...