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Self-publishing: My experience with Kotlin for Android Developers

Self-publishing may be a frightening option when you decide to publish your own tech book. I’ve received many questions through all these years since I published my book Kotlin for Android Developers, so here I did a live event to tell about my experience. Self-Publishing: steps, tools and alternatives Here I told you all my …

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Flutter: Mobile Development for Busy People, Lara Martin [Droidkast LIVE 05]

Lara Martin came to tell us about her beginnings and her experience as an Android Developer at Berlin. Her talk was about Flutter! And how Flutter allows programmers and designers to experiment and play with their app’s user interface, and create experiences that run at 60 fps with the look and feel of the Android …

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What Android devs wish they had known when starting out, with Nate Ebel [Droidkast LIVE 04]

Nate Ebel was our guest on Droidkast.LIVE! He’s an Android Engineer at Pixite Apps, speaker in many events and organizer of Droidcon Boston. Probably you know him through his youtube channel, goobar.io His talk was about what Android devs wish they had known when starting out. Explains 3 kinds of advice the Android developers wish …

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Modularizing Android Apps, with Joe Birch [Droidkast LIVE 03]

Joe Birch was our guest on the last episode! He’s an Android Lead at Buffer, Google Developer Expert for Android, Google Play and Flutter, instructor at caster.io and Public speaker. He’s also a volunteer for Sea Shepherd UK! So we talked about all that during the interview His talk was about modularizing Android Apps: what …

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Coroutines in Kotlin 1.3 explained: Suspending functions, contexts, builders and scopes

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 Kotlin coroutines, you can write asynchronous code, which was traditionally written using the Callback pattern, using synchronous style. …

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ConstraintLayout 2.0 with MotionLayout, with Huyen Tue Dao [Droidkast LIVE 02]

Huyen came to tell us how she became a software developer, her experience becoming an Android developer, a  speaker. She also told us about some of her hobbies Her talk was about the new features inside ConstraintLayout 2.0, with a special focus on MotionLayout. We saw how MotionLayout can help you create awesome animations in …

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The Art of Coding: Disasters and Failures, with Fernando Cejas [Droidkast LIVE 01]

I had the honor to have Fernando Cejas as my first guest for Droidkast.LIVE. We talked about almost two hours about lots of things, related to his life, how to balance work and life, interview processes, sharing with the community, new technologies… 1. The video You can watch the full episode here: 2. The interview: …

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MVVM with architecture components: a step by step guideline for MVP lovers

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 chance, but don’t know what MVP is or …

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