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 […]
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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 […]
Kotlin for Android development is here to stay. Google’s total conversion is just a matter of time, in my opinion. Few months back I wrote about “Why and how I switched to Kotlin”. In the post I listed some of the resources I found great for getting started. But what about […]
ProAndroidDev is very happy to share Android knowledge from the #AndroidDev community and to help you connect with the best professionals in the industry. What has happened in the last month? As you may have already noticed, we now have a new look to the publication, together with a brand new […]
Let me make a wild guess… You have encountered some code in Kotlin that is using some third-party library. The API that the library provides is one or a few static methods. And you want to test some code using these static methods. It is painful. You are not sure how […]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/the-money-pit/5900474232 Kotlin opened up a new world for us. Developers write less code than before in Java world. And Kotlin’s interoperability with Java made it easy to incorporate it into existing and new apps, while still having the freedom of using our favourite Java libraries. However, as these libraries are […]