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 even... 
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... 
by Antonio Leiva | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
One of the great wonders of Kotlin is that it’s fully integrated with Java. This means that although all your application code is written Java, you can create a class in Kotlin and use it from Java without any issues. Calling Kotlin from Java code can’t be... 
by Antonio Leiva | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
There’s been quite some months already since Gradle announced that they were working on supporting Kotlin to write Gradle Scripts, by using a version of the language that has been recently revamped to Kotlin DSL. At the beginning things where quite complicated,... 