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Language Injections in Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA 💉

Android Studio is a powerful IDE with a multitude of features that I’ll probably never discover. However, when I do discover a feature of the IDE that I’ve been dreaming about, I get irrationally excited about it (and often times write a blog post such as this one). One feature that really piqued my interest […]

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Lessons Learnt with Kotlin: Using inline classes 👩‍🔬

What is an inline class? 🧐 An inline class is a special type of class defined in Kotlin that only has one property. At runtime, the compiler will “inline” the property where it was used. This is similar to inline functions, where the compiler inserts the contents of the function into where it was called. Example […]

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Lessons Learnt with Kotlin: Extension Functions

At Over, we’ve been using Kotlin since we started the new Android version of the app in November 2018. From day one, we’ve been excited to try the language features and leverage them to build our mobile design app. One of the features we were most excited about was extension functions. What is an Extension […]

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Over ❤️ Kotlin – How we’ve used Kotlin to build our design app

I recently presented this talk at Kotlin Everywhere South Africa as the keynote for the event. I really enjoyed preparing this talk as it spoke about how we use Kotlin, mistakes we’ve made along the way and our opinion on how we decide to use certain features.  Talk Description: Over the past year and a […]

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Android Canvas APIs with Kotlin and KTX

Learn how to use the Android KTX extension functions to clean up Canvas drawing code Have you ever wanted to write a Custom View on Android but you were too afraid to deal with X, Y translations on a Canvas object?  Well, working with them got a whole lot easier when using Kotlin and the Android […]