by Antonio Leiva | Dec 25, 2017 | Development
Believe or not, another year is coming to an end! And I like to take a look at all the things I achieved, the ones I didn’t, and what I plan for the new year. Last year, I did it in my blog in Spanish, but this time I decided to share it with the world 😄 I think...
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 22, 2017 | Development
Function references are another of those great improvements that we get with Kotlin, which are kind of exotic when we come from Java. You already know that Kotlin supports functions as a type, what means that you can save a function in a variable, use it as another...
by Antonio Leiva | Nov 14, 2017 | Development
If you’re already developing Android Apps using Kotlin, you’ve probably heard about Anko layouts and been thinking about using them, or at least considering to take a look at them. The truth is that Anko has been around for really long. In fact, when I...
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,...
