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Kotlin is a functional language created by JetBrains that can be used to boost your Android productivity. Lambas, null safety, extension functions and a lot of breaking features make Android development simpler and easier. Start learning today! Get the book!Don't miss new posts
Live Templates on Android Studio and IntellliJ to improve your productivity
Live Templates are a way to avoid repetitive code in development environments like Android Studio or IntelliJ. When we are writing code, there are times when certain repetitive code can happen, and there is no way to encapsulate it. For these occasions, Live Templates...
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[LIVE] Answering all your questions: MVVM, Work-Life balance, career progression, football..? 😂
I got many questions after an Instagram story, and decided to do a Live session answering them all. This time, we covered many things: MVP vs MVVM Rx vs Coroutines Career progression advice Work-life balance, especially during parenthood ... And many more. We were 50...
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COIL: The Next-Gen IMAGE LOADER for Android [Coroutines Based!] 🚀
Coil is a new image loading library for Android development based on Kotlin and coroutines with the goal of making it simple, fast and lightweight. After trying it, I decided to record this video where I show you how to: Setup the library Use it to load images on...
Dependency Injection – All the Must-Know Concepts to start using it
To understand dependency injection, you first need to learn a set of concepts that will help you realize why you need it and what's happening under the hood. In this video, I'll talk about: ✅ What is a dependency ✅ Dependency Inversion Principle ✅...
Koin for dependency injection on Android. Is Dagger dead?
Koin is an alternative to Dagger that takes advantage of Kotlin features to make dependency injection much easier. https://youtu.be/fizzD_vCbIw In the video above, I explain why you need a dependency injector, what's the difference between Dagger and Koin, and a...
Data Binding on Android to implement the real MVVM
Data Binding is really easy and can save you from a lot of boilerplate when connecting your data to the UI, and also to update it when something changes. Here I show you an example from scratch, and how to apply it to the MVVM presentation pattern:...
Google I/O 2019 – What’s new for Android Developers
In this video, I show you some of the greatest announcements that were done during the first keynotes of Google I/O 2019, and I do an example with some of these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-AQ5U5smVA Google I/O 2019: Key topics announced during the event Kotlin...
Coroutines in Kotlin 1.3 explained: Suspending functions, contexts, builders and scopes
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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHG1mepeOCI With Kotlin...
MVVM with architecture components: a step by step guideline for MVP lovers
Ok, so now that MVVM is the standard to implement Android Apps since Google released their Guide to App architecture, I think it's time to provide some easy information to understand the MVVM pattern from the eyes of an MVP user. So, if you've reached here by chance,...
Clean architecture for Android with Kotlin: a pragmatic approach for starters
Clean architecture is a topic that never gets old in the Android world, and from the comments and questions I receive, I feel it's still not very clear. I know there are tens (or probably hundreds) of articles related to clean architecture, but here I wanted to give a...
