Kotlin vs Java: Compilation speed

If you convert an app from Java to Kotlin, will it take longer to compile?

The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android

An in-depth look at Kotlin’s initializers

Yesterday I had a co-worker come to me with an interesting bug in a Kotlin class he was writing. He had a read-only property with an inline initializer like this:

class MyProgressBar(context: Context) : ProgressBar(context) {…

Building a Custom Overflow Menu

When I started working at KeepSafe in March 2014, my first major project was to update the UI of our Android application to follow Google’s design guidelines for Android 4.0+.

Migrating a large Android app from Ant to Gradle

KeepSafe’s consideration for a new Android build…

Mobile filesystems — when native storage will let you down

At the beginning of 2012 I started developing for mobile devices. Before that, I performed some graph visualization work and backend oriented development. In the software engineering world, I have grown accustomed to a sense of…