Juan Ignacio Saravia

Published in ProAndroidDev

·Nov 21, 2018

Auto-generate Kotlin DSL

Introduction DSL (Domain Specific Language) is a pretty common way to provide an abstraction of an specific application domain. For example Kotlin, Java and Swift are “general-purpose languages”. SQL and HTML are “domain specific languages”. Nowadays, Kotlin is getting more and more popular in the DSL world for the features it…

Kotlin

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Published in ProAndroidDev

·Sep 7, 2018

Setup Kotlin EAP in your Android project

Setup Kotlin EAP in your Android project EAP stands for Early Access Preview. It’s how JetBrains share version of code that are not yet considerable stable but are on their way to be there. Maybe you read in the news that Kotlin next version will bring some super amazing features X and Z and you would like…

Android Studio

5 min read

Published in ProAndroidDev

·Sep 1, 2018

Migrating Android App to Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.0

Kotlin DSL RC 1.0 is here 👏 Kotlin DSL is Kotlin language support for Gradle build scripts. So it means that now you will be able to write your gradle files in Kotlin instead of Groovy. …

Gradle

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Published in ProAndroidDev

·Sep 9, 2017

Kotlin — Faster Lazy for Android

Kotlin has the concept of Delegated Properties which allows you to create common functionality and it can be re-used to do custom actions, for example you can create a Delegated Property to print some logs every time someone updates the value of a field, save a value to a database…

Android App Development

2 min read

Oct 1, 2016

Advent of Code with Kotlin [Day 1 to 7]

Kotlin to solve AdventOfCode If you never heard about AdventOfCode, let me briefly introduce it to you: Advent of Code is a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels. They are self-contained and are just as appropriate for an expert who wants to stay sharp as they are for a…

Kotlin

3 min read

Published in AndroidPub

·Aug 23, 2016

Keddit — Final Part: Conclusion and thanks!

Content Introduction: A few words about this Part 1: Configuring Android Studio with Kotlin Part 2: MainActivity.kt: Syntax, Null Safety and more… Part 3: NewsFragment.kt: Extension Functions, Android Extensions… Part 4: RecyclerView — Delegate Adapters & Data Classes with Kotlin Part 5: Kotlin, RxJava & RxAndroid Part 6: API — Retrofit…

Kotlin

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