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MVP for Android: how to organize the presentation layer

by Antonio Leiva | Jul 4, 2018 | Blog, Development, Kotlin

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...

Hacking Architecture Components by using Kotlin

by Antonio Leiva | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog, Development, Kotlin

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...

Time for accountability: Analysis of 2017 and goals for 2018

by Antonio Leiva | Dec 25, 2017 | Development

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 world 😄...

Listeners with several functions in Kotlin. How to make them shine?

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...

Function references in Kotlin: use functions as lambdas everywhere

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...

Anko layouts on Android. Should I forget about XMLs?

by Antonio Leiva | Nov 14, 2017 | Development

Warning: Anko has been deprecated, here it is some more info and alternatives to this library 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...