by Antonio Leiva | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
You’re probably tired of working with findViewById in your day-to-day life to recover Android views. Or maybe you gave up and started using the famous Butterknife library. Then you’ll love Kotlin Android Extensions. Kotlin Android Extensions: What’s... 
by Antonio Leiva | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
We’ve reached the end! The rest of articles were very practical, but today I wanted to talk about why I think it’s very interesting to learn Kotlin. Even now that Kotlin is an officially supported language to write Android Apps, you may still feel that... 
by Antonio Leiva | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
One of the great wonders of Kotlin is that it’s fully integrated with Java. This means that although all your application code is written Java, you can create a class in Kotlin and use it from Java without any issues. This potentially gives you two advantages:... 
by Antonio Leiva | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Sealed classes in Kotlin are another new concept we didn’t have in Java, and open another new world of possibilities. A sealed class allows you to represent constrained hierarchies in which an object can only be of one of the given types. That is, we have a... 
by Antonio Leiva | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Kotlin objects are another element of the language that we Android developers are not familiarized with, because there is nothing like that in Java. In fact, an object is just a data type with a single implementation. So if we want to find something similar in Java,... 
by Antonio Leiva | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
The interfaces in Kotlin will allow you to reuse more code than what you can get with Java. The reason is very simple: you can add code to your interfaces. If you’ve tried Java 8, it’s something pretty similar. The good thing about being able to include... 