Publications de Maxime Bonnet

Archi & Techno

KotlinConf 2018 – Recap

On October 4th and 5th the 2nd Kotlin Conf took place. We were here to attend the conference, learning new Kotlin tricks, but above all, to feel the amazing Kotlin vibe. After a first edition in San Francisco, the Kotlin Conf set up this year in Amsterdam, in the beautiful Bars Van Beurlage venue (one of the conference room was even lit with stunning stained glasses). Here is a recap of the talks that impressed us the most, classified by the main themes we identified during…

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A Responsive and Clean Android App with Kotlin Actors

One crucial point that each front-end developer must face when developing an application is handling the switch from UI to background threads. Indeed, we can all agree on the fact that your application shouldn’t freeze during long running operations. The Android SDK even strictly prevents us from calling an API from the Main Thread. There are many ways to tackle this issue, for instance with RxJava, with a ThreadPool (check this out) … This article aims at proposing yet another asynchronism solution, using Kotlin actors. We’ll…

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