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!
Ooga-chaka: Git hooks to enforce code quality
Use git hooks to prevent code formatting and static analysis from making your CI unhappy.
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!