You need to learn Kotlin now! if you are an #AndroidDev

by Antonio Leiva | Mar 13, 2019 | Development

Kotlin is here to stay! Companies are adopting it and it is nowadays the fastest growing language in the market. Here I talk about the inception of the language, the current situation of the Kotlin in the market and why you should start learning about it. You’ll...

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

by Antonio Leiva | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Interviews

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...

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

by Antonio Leiva | Feb 18, 2019 | Blog, Interviews

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...

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

by Antonio Leiva | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog, Kotlin

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,...

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

by Antonio Leiva | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, Interviews

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...

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

by Antonio Leiva | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog, Interviews

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...