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... 
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... 