Using Kotlin DSL For Gradle If you’re an Android developer then you’ve undoubtedly worked in the build.gradle file. And you’ve undoubtedly wanted to throw things at your computer when it didn’t work as intended. It’s a file (2 actually) essential to your app’s well being, but it’s written in Groovy which pretty much no one knows well. This has created …
That Missing Guide To Kotlin Part 2 In part one of our Kotlin series we began exploring the newly adopted language. We saw a few examples of how it can make our code more concise and user friendly than Java including type inference and inline constructors. In part two we’ll continue to show how Kotlin can make your code easier …
That Missing Guide To Kotlin In 2017 Kotlin began taking the Android community by storm. Google adopted it as a first class language, and shortly afterwards developers everywhere renounced Java in favor of the newer, sleeker language. That change isn’t going away. I won’t lie, when I first was exposed I didn’t see what all the fuss was about. …