Egor's Blog

Back in the early days of Kotlin adoption on Android, many people started writing their unit tests using Kotlin. Even though the primary goal of this approach was to have a possibility to enjoy Kotlin without letting it slip into the actual production code, it turned out that Kotlin is... [Read More]

Did you know that you can inline properties in Kotlin? I discovered this small feature accidentally while browsing through Kotlin docs, and thought it’s worth a short article. So why is this useful? [Read More]

Input validation is important, so you’re most likely familiar with the following pattern in Java: [Read More]

There has recently been a discussion online about the best approach for storing global constants, or public static final fields in Javaspeak. This short article describes available options and points out some of the pitfalls you can run into. But before we start, let’s talk a bit about decompiling Kotlin... [Read More]

Nowadays, Gradle is undoubtedly The Build Tool in Android development, and a very powerful one. In addition to that, Gradle keeps evolving fast, each new release bringing new features and performance optimizations. However, many of us are using just basic Gradle config and waiting patiently for minutes until our builds... [Read More]