Google’s Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly At Google’s I/O 2017 Developers Conference last year, the search giant had announced Kotlin would be an officially supported language in Android and it will join the list of existing programming languages used for Android app development, such as Java and C++. It […]
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Posted by James Lau, Product Manager (@jmslau) When using the Java programming language, one of the most common pitfalls is trying to access a member of a null reference, causing a NullPointerException to be thrown. Kotlin offers protection against this by baking nullable and non-nullable types into the type system. […]
Posted by Nicole Borrelli, Android Developer, Programs Engineer The Universal Android Music Player (or “UAMP”) is a favorite on GitHub for music app developers with over 9,500 stars and 3,000 forks. Since UAMP was first released, Android development has changed significantly. ExoPlayer has improved, Architecture Components were introduced, and Kotlin […]
Posted by Aleks Haecky, Training Developer & Word Artist, Google+, LinkedIn, Medium The Kotlin Bootcamp Udacity course is a free, self-paced online course that teaches you the basics of the Kotlin programming language. This introduction to Kotlin was created by Google experts in collaboration with Udacity and is for people […]
Kotlin is a very rich language with much subtlety tucked away. In this occasional series (meaning that there will be occasional, standalone posts covering distinct areas) we’ll explore some of these subtleties. In this post we’ll take a look at mutability. Mutability is a core concept in Kotlin, but all […]
Popular programming language Kotlin arrives as a snap for Ubuntu Canonical has announced that the modern programming language, Kotlin, is now available as a snap package for Ubuntu. Over the past couple of months, Canonical has also announced snap packages for the popular music streaming service Spotify, and apps such as Slack […]
Image Source I have been learning kotlin since quite a while. Needless to say I love it 🙂 When I started learning it I had no clue from where I should start ? Because of number of resources like videos, official documentation and books. If you haven’t started yet and planning to […]
Weekly update on Kotlin resources. 1. Exploring KTX for Android Exploring KTX for Android 2. Effective Networking On Android using Retrofit, Rx and Architecture Components Effective Networking On Android using Retrofit, Rx and Architecture Components 3. Why starting a new Android project with Java is a bad idea Why starting a new […]
For many, like me, Retrofit is the go-to library on Android to talk to their REST APIs. Retrofit also supports adapters to convert your API responses into Reactive Streams. Reactive streams, among other things, help you handle threading effectively. This makes your Android application robust, stable and development faster. For […]
It is amazing how much improved our Android development process has been, after Kotlin was announced as the official language for Android development. From people at Android, improving Android Studio to make it easier for us developers, to use Kotlin on our favorite IDE, to people at Kotlin making Anko […]