by Antonio Leiva | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog, Kotlin
Coroutines are one of the most exciting features in Kotlin. With them, you can simplify the work of asynchronous tasks in an impressive way, and make the code much more readable and easy to understand. With coroutines, you can write asynchronous code, which was...
by Antonio Leiva | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog, Kotlin
Ok, so now that MVVM is the standard to implement Android Apps since Google released their Guide to App architecture, I think it’s time to provide some easy information to understand the MVVM pattern from the eyes of an MVP user. So, if you’ve reached here...
by Antonio Leiva | Sep 30, 2018 | Blog, Kotlin
Clean architecture is a topic that never gets old in the Android world, and from the comments and questions I receive, I feel it’s still not very clear. I know there are tens (or probably hundreds) of articles related to clean architecture, but here I wanted to...
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...
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...
by Antonio Leiva | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog, Kotlin
In November 2017, I had the chance (and luck!) of participating in a great event at Latvia: Devfest Baltics. It was awesome in many ways, but specially because of how the organizers treated us the speakers. I had never felt so warm (in such a cold country 😂) I...
