by Antonio Leiva | May 30, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Truth to be told: writing databases in Android is quite boring. All the boilerplate required to work with SQLite is far from being the most delightful thing in the world. Fortunately, there are already enough libraries that simplify this task, one of them announced... 
by Antonio Leiva | May 15, 2017 | Kotlin
Google has already expressed several times that they don’t have anything against Kotlin, and that they’re not preventing us from using it while the compiler still generates valid bytecode. But many people is still waiting for an official support, something... 
by Antonio Leiva | May 9, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
Creating alerts and dialogs on Android is a relatively simple task thanks to the builder, but due to the verbosity of the language it usually becomes something quite illegible. In Kotlin, by the mere fact of the lambdas, it simplifies us a little to understand what is... 
by Antonio Leiva | May 2, 2017 | Blog, Kotlin
One of the most common issues for Kotlin, as we talked about in a previous article, is that all classes and functions are closed by default. This means that if you want to mock a class (something that may be quite common in Java testing), you need to either open it... 
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... 