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’re 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,... 
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
You’re probably tired of working with findViewById in your day-to-day life to recover Android views. Or maybe you gave up and started using the famous Butterknife library. Then you’ll love Kotlin Android Extensions. Kotlin Android Extensions: What’s... 
by Antonio Leiva | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
We’ve reached the end! The rest of articles were very practical, but today I wanted to talk about why I think it’s very interesting to learn Kotlin. Even now that Kotlin is an officially supported language to write Android Apps, you may still feel that... 