by Antonio Leiva | Apr 25, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Of course, Kotlin also allows us to do unit tests in a very simple way, and very similar to what we’re used in Java. There are some small complications when we use libraries like Mockito, but we’ll see some tricks to make it easier. Unit tests in Kotlin... 
by Antonio Leiva | Apr 18, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
This is just one more example about how in Kotlin we can continue to use the same libraries we’ve always used in Java for Android. Retrofit is a library that greatly simplifies doing requests to an API, and in this case I’m going to teach you how to... 
by Antonio Leiva | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Virtually everyone who wants to create code on Android in a decoupled and easy-to-test way, resorts to Dagger sooner or later. Although there is something that works a bit differently when setting up Dagger in Kotlin, most of it is quite simple, and in a few steps... 
by Antonio Leiva | Apr 4, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
It had taken me too long to write an article to one of the most important parts of Kotlin: the treatment of nullity. Tony Hoare, the creator of the idea of nulls, calls itself “the billion dollar mistake”. Nulls are one of the most error-prone points you... 
by Antonio Leiva | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Although I spoke a little about it in another article, I’d like to explain in depth how lambdas work in Kotlin, and how they transform the interfaces with a single method in lambdas when we are working with Java libraries. In particular I’m going to show... 
by Antonio Leiva | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
In Kotlin, as in every language, we have predefined operators to perform certain operations. The most typical are the addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*) or division (/), but there are a few more. In some languages, such as Java, these operators are... 
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