by Antonio Leiva | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Development, Kotlin
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...
by Antonio Leiva | Nov 22, 2017 | Development
Function references are another of those great improvements that we get with Kotlin, which are kind of exotic when we come from Java. You already know that Kotlin supports functions as a type, what means that you can save a function in a variable, use it as another...
by Antonio Leiva | Nov 14, 2017 | Development
If you’re already developing Android Apps using Kotlin, you’ve probably heard about Anko layouts and been thinking about using them, or at least considering to take a look at them. The truth is that Anko has been around for really long. In fact, when I...
by Antonio Leiva | Sep 2, 2017 | Blog, Development, Kotlin
You may probably know that this days I’m publishing my first online course in English, Kotlin for Android Developers, based on all the knowledge I’ve gotten from writing my book and the live workshop I teach here in Spain. In the course, you will learn...
by Antonio Leiva | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog, Development, Kotlin
As you may know, the Support Library 24 included a new really handy class called DiffUtil, which will let you get rid of the boring and error prone of detecting which cells changed and update them If you haven’t heard about it, you can take a look at this nice article...
by Antonio Leiva | Mar 16, 2016 | Blog, Development, Kotlin
Today a mate asked me how he could do an OnGlobalLayoutListener properly without incurring in the need of too much boilerplate. This was a tricky question because of a couple of things, let’s see it a little more deeply. What is OnGlobalLayoutListener for? This...
