by Antonio Leiva | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Kotlin objects are another element of the language that we Android developers are not familiarized with, because there is nothing like that in Java. In fact, an object is just a data type with a single implementation. So if we want to find something similar in Java,... 
by Antonio Leiva | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
The interfaces in Kotlin will allow you to reuse more code than what you can get with Java. The reason is very simple: you can add code to your interfaces. If you’ve tried Java 8, it’s something pretty similar. The good thing about being able to include... 
by Antonio Leiva | May 30, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Truth to be told: writing databases in Android is quite boring. All the boilerplate required to work with SQLite is far from being the most delightful thing in the world. Fortunately, there are already enough libraries that simplify this task, one of them announced... 
by Antonio Leiva | May 15, 2017 | Kotlin
Google has already expressed several times that they don’t have anything against Kotlin, and that they’re not preventing us from using it while the compiler still generates valid bytecode. But many people is still waiting for an official support, something... 
by Antonio Leiva | May 9, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Creating alerts and dialogs on Android is a relatively simple task thanks to the builder, but due to the verbosity of the language it usually becomes something quite illegible. In Kotlin, by the mere fact of the lambdas, it simplifies us a little to understand what is... 
by Antonio Leiva | May 2, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
One of the most common issues for Kotlin, as we talked about in a previous article, is that all classes and functions are closed by default. This means that if you want to mock a class (something that may be quite common in Java testing), you need to either open it... 
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