Photo by Eirik Solheim on Unsplash Whether you’re an experienced Android developer or are new to the platform, if you have written Android code recently, it’s highly likely that you have seen AndroidX all over the place. If you’re like me, most likely you don’t look into the details behind what this term means or what the difference is between it and other imports you make to your...
Photo by Lukenn Sabellano on Unsplash Kotlin has five basic data types. In a previous post, we discussed the first basic type in Kotlin, numbers. This time, the discussion will be related to strings. In Kotlin, like in most programming languages, strings are groups of characters that form what we normally use as words, even though this is not necessarily true, as strings can...
The first topic to begin exploring Kotlin are data types, in this language, they are called ‘Basic’ types, which is not exactly the same as what many developers refer to as ‘Primitives’, but this is a topic for another post. Kotlin mentions in the documentation five of these types: NumbersCharactersBooleansArraysStrings Across this post, I will focus on giving a friendly explanation about...
Note: This is the second part on a series I am currently writing, here is the first part: part1, for those who missed it. In the previous part of this series we talked about the hardware you need to start developing on mobile platforms. There we mentioned there is an initial stopper for developing on iOS, ‘you need a Mac’. If this isn’t a problem for you and are still wondering which one you...
Throughout the twelve years, I’ve been on this never-ending path of mobile development, I have heard this (not so easy to answer) question more times I can keep track of. And the time has come for me to answer this in a more formal way that I can do it on a 5-minute chit-chat. I’ve got your point… So… Where to start on Mobile Development? I can’t tell you the perfect recipe for becoming the next...
