Android Developer Tutorials
The forEach loop, are you using it without thinking? In Kotlin, empirically forEach is often the go-to loop, it’s pragmatically close at reach in the IDE auto-complete, but is it always the right choice? This…
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Quick blog posting showing you the build.gradle.kts version of the default build.gradle file from the “empty activity” Android Studio template. This post will go stale fast, get it whilst its hot. 🙂 The original templates…
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This article explains the ‘show type hints’ feature of IntelliJ. To get to see those sweet variable types you desire but not change any of the code conventions in your place of work.
At some point you may want to show that you know a text value, but not show the value itself. For example, when you have sensitive data stored like a password, you may want to…
Kotlin is a young language, and with that comes many untrodden paths and unknown gotchas. Let’s explore one of these anti-patterns, for the sake of the article I’ve called it “Also this is null”.
This blog will explain how to use Google Cloud’s Speech API to convert an audio recording of someone speaking to text in Android. We’ll use Kotlin and the Google Speech client for best results. Google…
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Kotlin Extension functions allow you to add behaviour (think methods/functions) to any other type on the platform or in your codebase. The idea being to allow for greater flexibility and less boiler plate code. Let’s…