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 more pragmatic/simplistic approach that can help …
Clean architecture for Android with Kotlin: a pragmatic approach for starters Read More »
Hi dear reader! I normally don’t write this kind of blog posts in my pretty technical blog, but I think that today deserves an exception. As you may (or may not) know, for more than 4 years now, I’ve been working for Plex full time doing awesome (sometimes seemed that impossible) things on the Android …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]MVP (Model View Presenter) pattern is a derivative from the well known MVC (Model View Controller), and one of the most popular patterns to organize the presentation layer in Android Applications. This article was first published in April 2014, and been the most popular since then. So I’ve decided …
MVP for Android: how to organize the presentation layer Read More »
I’ve been using Architecture Components for a while, and I must admit I love them. The Android team has managed to find a way to let us forget about lifecycles and focus on what really matters. But not only that. Thanks to Architecture Components (which you can learn more about them here), not committing mistakes …
In November 2017, I had the chance (and luck!) of participating in a great event at Latvia: Devfest Baltics. It was awesome in many ways, but specially because of how the organizers treated us the speakers. I had never felt so warm (in such a cold country 😂) I even had the chance to do …
Yo Dawg! I heard you like Kotlin (Talk at Devfest Baltics) Read More »
Believe or not, another year is coming to an end! And I like to take a look at all the things I achieved, the ones I didn’t, and what I plan for the new year. Last year, I did it in my blog in Spanish, but this time I decided to share it with the …
Time for accountability: Analysis of 2017 and goals for 2018 Read More »
One question I get often is how to simplify the interaction with listeners that have several functions on Kotlin. For listeners (or any interfaces) with a single function is simple: it automatically lets you replace it by a lambda. But that’s not the case for listeners with several functions. So in this article I want …
Listeners with several functions in Kotlin. How to make them shine? Read More »
One of the great wonders of Kotlin is that it’s fully integrated with Java. This means that although all your application code is written Java, you can create a class in Kotlin and use it from Java without any issues. Calling Kotlin from Java code can’t be easier. This potentially gives you two advantages: You …
Calling Kotlin from Java: start using Kotlin today (KAD 29) Read More »
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 function argument, or even make that a …
Function references in Kotlin: use functions as lambdas everywhere Read More »
Warning: Anko has been deprecated, here it is some more info and alternatives to this library If you’re already developing Android Apps using Kotlin, you’ve 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 …
Anko layouts on Android. Should I forget about XMLs? Read More »