Kotlin and Android #3 — Know your properties
tl;dr Kotlin properties are awesome and super powerful, but each form comes with a bunch of gotchas. Make sure you fully understand them…
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Kotlin and Android #2 — Treacherous properties
Developers love properties in Kotlin, but a property is not always the right choice. Getting carried away can be risky, so when should we avoid properties?
Kotlin and Android #1 — by lazy
Many people love by lazy, but it's easy to underestimate and misuse it. When should you use lateinit, and when is by lazy a better choice, as an Android developer?
Kotlin and Android — An opinionated series (intro)
In this series we're going to be looking at a few common patterns I have seen Android developers use in Kotlin, and see what's the good and bad in each, and when to use them.
Quick Android Studio tip: debug logs without code
Instead of writing debug logging code, you can take advantage of the IDE tools. No more log statements forgot here and there!
Share the settings with the whole team — a year later
After one year of keeping the project's settings into VCS, I share my new findings. What worked? What didn't work, and how did we fix it? Read to the end for a bonus tip!
Quickly change tokens case (Android Studio protip #7)
Changing the casing of some text has never been so easy as in your IDE!
Share the settings with the whole team (Android Studio protip #6)
How can you make sure everyone on the team is using the same IDE settings? Put the .idea folder in version control!
Use tasks to bring the stories to you (Android Studio protip #5)
Surface tickets from your issue tracker in the IDE, and automate some of the work away!