Luis Carino's Blog

I'm studying Kotlin, and I thought this site would be an excellent place to share things that I've learned and hopefully help someone that is on the same journey. In this blog post, I'll explain what is Kotlin and review some of the few nice features of the language, and we'll create a Hello World Android app using Kotlin. Let's get started. What is Kotlin? Kotlin is a new programming language created by JetBrains that targets Java platform. Kotlin is: - Concise: Kotlin syntax clearly expresses the intent of the code you read and doesn't obscure it with boilerplate code. -Pragmatic: Kotlin is a useful language intended to solve problems real-world problems. -Interoperable: Kotlin can work with Java seamlessly. No tricks required: Kotlin classes and methods can be called exactly like regular Java classes and methods. The IDE provides full support for cross-language projects. Making it easy to navigate freely between Java and Kotlin source f...

I've been looking forward to this moment for the past month. I've finally released the first version of my Android app to keep your ideas organized and always available.  With this app, I wanted to showcase how easy is to develop an Android app implementing the new Android Architecture Components and Material Design guidelines using only Kotlin as a programming language. I will share in the next posts the lessons I've learned creating this app.  My goal is to create tech products that can help others; there are a ton of features in the works and will be available soon. I also have plans to start building this app for other platforms such as iOS, Google Actions, and Alexa Skills.  I'll leave here a screenshot of the first version of Next Idea app for Android and the link to the Google Play Store Listing page.