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,...
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 | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
If you’ve been developing Android Apps for some time, you’re probably already tired of working with findViewById in your day-to-day life to recover views. Or maybe you gave up and started using the famous Butterknife library. If that’s your case,...
by Antonio Leiva | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Even now that Kotlin is an officially supported language to write Android Apps, you may still feel that there are not enough reasons for a change. Java has proved to be working during all these years, so why should you change? Here are my reasons why I think that, far...
by Antonio Leiva | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Sealed classes in Kotlin are another new concept we didn’t have in Java, and open another new world of possibilities. A sealed class allows you to represent constrained hierarchies in which an object can only be of one of the given types. That is, we have a...
