Maintaining Compatibility in Kotlin Libraries
Not breaking client code is an essential duty of a library developer. Let’s take a look at a couple rarely discussed issues you might face in this area.
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Wrap-up 2018
It’s the end of the year, and looking back at what you’ve done in the year that passed is, like, a thing. So I’ve decided to take a shot at it too.
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Data classes aren’t (that) magical
Data classes are great, but don’t underestimate what a regular Kotlin class can do on its own.
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Retrofit meets coroutines
Retrofit’s coroutine support has been a long time coming, and it’s finally coming to completion. Take a look at how you can use it to neatly integrate networking into an application built with coroutines.
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@JvmOverloads for Android Views
The @JvmOverloads annotation is a convenience feature in Kotlin for interoperating with Java code, but there is one specific use case on Android where it shouldn’t be used carelessly.
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KotlinConf ’18
Funnily enough, after the previous conference report on this blog, I’ve got yet another one. I got to visit KotlinConf this year, these are my initial thoughts about it. Spoiler: it was awesome!
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AndroidX, one month in
AndroidX has been around for a month now. Here’s my experience with the migration so far, and some insight into the adoption of the new system.
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A Confusing Dependency
A tale of a Gradle dependency that was doing something it wasn’t supposed to be doing.
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Kotliners 2018
I’ve attended the Kotliners 2018 conference in Budapest this June. I think it went great, here’s how I experienced it.
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From Java Builders to Kotlin DSLs
A step by step guide to wrapping an existing Builder-based API into a neat Kotlin DSL.