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... 
by Antonio Leiva | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Development, Kotlin
I’ve been talking a lot about Kotlin in this blog, but now that Google is also talking about Kotlin, and that Kotlin 1.0 RC has been released, there’s no doubt that Kotlin is much more than just an alternative for Android. Kotlin is here to stay, and I... 
by Antonio Leiva | Dec 14, 2015 | Blog, Development
If you’ve used a RecyclerView, you may know that they don’t have a setOnItemClickListener as ListView had, so we have to create our own way to do it. Many people asked me how to do this, so that’s why I decided to write about it. There are many ways... by Antonio Leiva | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog, Development, Kotlin
We saw pretty amazing improvements in the first article thanks to the use of Kotlin in an activity. But the thing is that these kind of classes are not the best candidates to notice the benefits because they are mostly overriding methods and doing a couple of things,... by Antonio Leiva | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Development, Kotlin
People often ask me about the advantages of writing Android Apps using Kotlin. The thing is that I never directly converted an Android App from Java to Kotlin, so it’s always a difficult question to answer. Explaining a lot of abstract features without putting... 