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 are an ideal solution that can save you a lot of …
Live Templates on Android Studio and IntellliJ to improve your productivity Read More »
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 highlight two, these would be ButterKnife, and the Kotlin Android Extensions …
View Binding: The Definitive way to access views on Android Read More »
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 Principle ✅ Inversion of Control ✅ Dependency provisioning ✅ Service Locator ✅ Dependency …
Dependency Injection – All the Must-Know Concepts to start using it Read More »
In this video, I show you some of the greatest announcements that were done during the first keynotes of Google I/O 2019, and I do an example with some of these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-AQ5U5smVA Google I/O 2019: Key topics announced during the event Kotlin first: new updates of libraries and features will be first for Kotlin- Android …
Google I/O 2019 – What’s new for Android Developers Read More »
Kotlin is here to stay! Companies are adopting it and it is nowadays the fastest growing language in the market. Here I talk about the inception of the language, the current situation of the Kotlin in the market and why you should start learning about it. You’ll also get a glimpse on how to start …
You need to learn Kotlin now! if you are an #AndroidDev Read More »
Hi dear reader! I normally don’t write this kind of blog posts in my pretty technical blog, but I think that today deserves an exception. As you may (or may not) know, for more than 4 years now, I’ve been working for Plex full time doing awesome (sometimes seemed that impossible) things on the Android …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]MVP (Model View Presenter) pattern is a derivative from the well known MVC (Model View Controller), and one of the most popular patterns to organize the presentation layer in Android Applications. This article was first published in April 2014, and been the most popular since then. So I’ve decided …
MVP for Android: how to organize the presentation layer Read More »
I’ve been using Architecture Components for a while, and I must admit I love them. The Android team has managed to find a way to let us forget about lifecycles and focus on what really matters. But not only that. Thanks to Architecture Components (which you can learn more about them here), not committing mistakes …
Believe or not, another year is coming to an end! And I like to take a look at all the things I achieved, the ones I didn’t, and what I plan for the new year. Last year, I did it in my blog in Spanish, but this time I decided to share it with the …
Time for accountability: Analysis of 2017 and goals for 2018 Read More »
One question I get often is how to simplify the interaction with listeners that have several functions on Kotlin. For listeners (or any interfaces) with a single function is simple: it automatically lets you replace it by a lambda. But that’s not the case for listeners with several functions. So in this article I want …
Listeners with several functions in Kotlin. How to make them shine? Read More »