Blog Archives - Antonio Leiva

[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...

Koin for dependency injection on Android. Is Dagger dead?

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

Koin is an alternative to Dagger that takes advantage of Kotlin features to make dependency injection much easier. In the video above, I explain why you need a dependency injector, what’s the difference between Dagger and Koin, and a complete example on how to...

Antonio Leiva interviewed by Fernando Cejas – Celebrating 1k subs on YouTube [Droidkast LIVE 6]

by Antonio Leiva | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog, Interviews

Welcome to another episode of Droidkast LIVE. But this time I’m bringing a little different program. When I interviewed Fernando in the first Droidkast, he proposed interviewing me in a future episode. So to celebrate that we are more than 1000 friends on...