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...
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,...
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,...
