Category Archives: Android

Kotlin’s Android Roadmap

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Dmitry Jemerov

Introduction One of the most interesting pieces of news we’ve all seen recently is Google announcing (limited) Java 8 support for Android N with the Jack compiler for Java. Naturally, our users are curious about how these news affect them, … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Roadmap | 31 Comments

Contest: Go Cross-Platform with Kotlin!

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Roman Belov

Hi All, Have you ever heard about RoboVM? It lets you create beautiful native apps for iOS & Android, allowing you to share code between platforms. RoboVM translates Java bytecode into native ARM or x86 code. The latest RoboVM release … Continue reading →

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Better Annotation Processing: Supporting Stubs in kapt

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Andrey Breslav

We announced kapt, an Annotation Processing Tool for Kotlin, some time ago, and discussed its limitations. Now most of the limitations are going away with the updated version of kapt that is available as a 0.1-SNAPSHOT preview.

Posted in Android, Libraries, Tools | 18 Comments

kapt: Annotation Processing for Kotlin

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Andrey Breslav

This post is largely outdated. Please check out Better Annotation Processing: Supporting Stubs in kapt As there have been many requests to support Java Annotation Processing, we are working on it, and first results are ready for preview. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Tools | 21 Comments

Advanced Features of Anko

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Andrey Breslav

Last week we published a new version of Anko. While the main purpose of this library is creating layouts though a DSL, even the users of XML layouts can benefit from it. Today we are going to talk about such … Continue reading →

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Anko 0.6 is Released

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Andrey Breslav

Today we are glad to present the new version of Anko — a library which facilitates Android application development. We are happy to have received lots of feedback, and some of the changes in 0.6 were actually proposed by the … Continue reading →

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Announcing Anko for Android

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Hadi Hariri

We’re excited to announce a library we’ve been working on for Android development, which, among other things allows the creation of Application Interfaces in a type-safe and dynamic way using a DSL. A Sample Taste Here is a small example … Continue reading →

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