My experiences using Anko library (Android Kotlin)
I’ve been using Anko library from the start of my Kotlin journey and my experiences with it are mostly positive. According to its Github readme page, Anko is …a Kotlin library which makes Android application development faster and easier. It makes your code clean and easy to read, and lets you forget about rough edges…
Kotlin is so cool and easy to learn
I enjoy developing Android applications. When I’ve read couple of months ago Kotlin has been added as a official language to Android Studio I finally decided to learn it. Up to that point I had been hearing only good things about Kotlin. I don’t know when I first heard of Kotlin but probably year and…
Android Fragments
Fragments are important aspect of building great user interfaces in Android. I’ve finally managed to learn them properly with a book titled Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments by Jim Wilson. With it we learn about fragments and their related concepts and how they are connected through building seemingly simple app of list of book…
KDE Connect
KDE Connect is probably the most useful day-to-day software for me. It’s a set of software that lets you connect your Android phone with your desktop on Linux (in my case Ubuntu). With it you can do lots of useful things. You can: transfer files between phone and desktop, in both directions. mirror notifications from…
On developing Android applications
Developing Android applications is fun thanks to good documentation, lots of guides and zillion examples all over the internet. Programming in Java, not so much. But not discouraging to the point to use libraries which let you write mobile apps in other programming languages like Ionic, PhoneGap or similar. I prefer going native. And besides,…