After reading what extension functions and default values can do for you, you might be wondering what´s next. As we talked in first article about Kotlin, this language makes Android development much simpler and there are still some more things I´d like to talk about. Custom Views Kotlin, by default, only uses one constructor per …
Kotlin for Android (IV): Custom Views and Android Extensions Read More »
Now that you know the basics about Kotlin and how to configure your project, it´s time to talk about some interesting things that Kotlin can do for us and Java can´t. Remember that if you have some doubts about Kotlin language, you can always refer to the official reference. It´s very well organized and easy …
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After getting a light idea of what Kotlin is and what it can do for us, it´s time to configure Android Studio to help us develop Android apps using Kotlin. It requires some steps that only need to be done first time, but some other Gradle configurations will need to be done on every new …
Kotlin is one of the many JVM based languages that are starting to emerge as a possible Java successor in Android development. Java is one of the most used languages in the world, and while many other languages evolve to make programmers lives easier, Java has not been able to keep their track as fast …