WorkManager provides a set of APIs that makes it easy to schedule asynchronous tasks for immediate or deferred execution that are expected to run even if the app is closed or the device restarts. For Kotlin users, WorkManager provides first-class support for coroutines. In this post I’ll show you the…

Room is a wrapper over SQLite and it makes working with databases on Android so much easier and is by far my favorite Jetpack library. …

Kotlin is known for its conciseness and this, in practice, translates into higher productivity. Even more, 67% of professional Android developers who use Kotlin say it has increased their productivity. In this blog post, I’ll share a couple of ways Kotlin has increased the productivity of our partners’ engineers and…

When using Android Java APIs in Kotlin, you quickly realise that you’re missing out on some of the Kotlin features that make coding so much easier and pleasant. Instead of writing your own wrappers and extension functions for these APIs, take a look at the Jetpack KTX libraries. Currently, more…

Kotlin Vocabulary: data classes — A Puppy has a name, a breed and a whole lot of cuteness. To model a class that holds just data, you should use a data class. The compiler simplifies your work by auto generating toString(), equals() and hashCode() for you and providing destructuring and copy functionality out of the…

Ever since we announced our Kotlin support in 2017 we’ve been getting a lot of questions about Kotlin on Android: you wanted to know whether it’s time to learn it, to introduce it to your app, what the best course or tutorial to learn Kotlin is, whether Google is using…

Users expect to have a seamless experience with your app. Crashes can lead to an increase in poor reviews, uninstalls and even damaging your brand perception. From talking to the community we know that one of the main reasons to adopt Kotlin is safer code. In this post I’ll share…

Kotlin Vocabulary — destructuring — Sometimes you just want to break down one object that contains multiple fields to initialize several separate variables. To achieve this, you can use Kotlin’s destructuring declarations. …

Kotlin Vocabulary Short and easy to use, default arguments allow you to implement function overloads without the boilerplate. Like many Kotlin features, this can feel like magic. Are you curious to learn its secrets? Read on to find out how default arguments work under the hood. Basic usage If you need to…