Berlindroid

Legacy code can be quite the challenge to manage, often resulting from untested scenarios, quick fixes, or less than successful initiatives. With few developers wanting to deal with it, it can end up with little remaining knowledge of its inner workings. We can take many learnings from Michael Feathers book on “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”, but we can also use Kotlin migration as an effective tool to leverage the management, reduction, and removal of legacy code in our applications....

Kotlin has taken the Android world by storm, and is quickly becoming the most popular language, with coroutines approaching stability, does it make sense to replace your RxJava implementations for Coroutines? Despite the hype, it may not make sense to jump on the bandwagon just yet, with RxJava having already proven its stability and usefulness, and in many cases the comparison between the two frameworks showing that they simply fit different purposes....

Following the announcement at this years Google IO we’ve seen a dramatic uptake in Kotlin and over the last few months we’ve learnt how we can use it to improve and produce clean architecture applications and supercharge our unit tests, but what about our UI tests? In this session, I’ll show you how you can utilise Kotlin with the Robot pattern to build concise, terse and easy to read UI tests...