Kotlin

Writing Paparazzi tests for your Kotlin Multiplatform projects

Paparazzi enables a radically faster and improved UI testing workflow, and using a small workaround we can bring that to our multiplatform Compose projects

Manually parsing JSON with Moshi

Moshi is a fast and powerful JSON parsing library for the JVM and Android. Today we look into manually parsing JSON to and from Java/Kotlin classes

Tips and tricks for building libraries in Kotlin

Building libraries is hard, and keeping track of your public API surface harder. Kotlin 1.4’s explicit API mode tries to make the latter not be difficult anymore.

#TeachingKotlin Part 3 - Caveats coming from Java

Part 3 of #TeachingKotlin covers some subtle differences between Kotlin and Java that might affect your codebases as you start migrating to or writing new code in Kotlin.

Why I went back to the Gradle Groovy DSL

I was an early adopter of the Gradle Kotlin DSL, deploying it to multiple Android projects of mine, but lately it has been more trouble than I could care for. Here are my grievances with it.

#TeachingKotlin Part 2 - Variables

The second post in #TeachingKotlin series, this post goes over Kotlin’s variables and their attributes, like visibility and getters/setters.

#TeachingKotlin Part 1 - Classes and Objects and everything in between

Part 1 of my #TeachingKotlin, this post goes over Kotlin classes, objects and how things like finality and staticity vary between Java and Kotlin.

#TeachingKotlin - Kotlin for Android Java developers

Kotlin’s been great for me – and millions others, as evident by its explosive growth. Long-time Java developers may feel hesitant to give it a shot. This series aims to smoothen this transition, letting people know what benefits they might reap from Kotlin, and what differences should they be careful about.