My Experience at droidconSF 2017

By Victoria Gonda

DroidconSF proved to be a great conference. There were so many great things to learn, and people to meet. My experience there was definitely worthwhile.

The Very First KotlinConf

By Victoria Gonda

JetBrains held its first KotlinConf, and it was a huge success. With 1200 attendees, it was a great conference to both attend and speak at. There was much to learn about the language and how it is being used.

Bang Bang: Drumming the nulls from your code

By Victoria Gonda

When converting Java code to Kotlin code, there’s a good chance you’ll see a bunch of double bang operators. Rather than leaving these to error, you want to make these places null safe. Here we discuss some options to handle null in Kotlin.

How We Develop Mobile Applications - Pt 4 - Android

By Victoria Gonda and Joshua Kovach

Learn to use Model-View-Presenter to define and test application behavior independent of the Android framework.

Kotlin Uncovered: Part 4

By Victoria Gonda

We can learn a lot about Kotlin through decompiling the bytecode into Java. In this post, we’ll learn how having nullability built into the type system helps us.

Kotlin Uncovered: Part 3

By Victoria Gonda

We can learn a lot about Kotlin through decompiling the bytecode into Java. In this post, we learn about everything we get from Kotlin data classes.

Kotlin Uncovered: Part 2

By Victoria Gonda

We can learn a lot about Kotlin through decompiling the bytecode into Java. In this post, we learn about the power of Kotlin classes.

My First Conference Talk

By Victoria Gonda

This year I had the goal to try speaking at conferences (or at least a MeetUp), and I accomplished that goal. Here’s the story of my journey there.

DroidConBos 2017 Review

By Victoria Gonda

Boston just had their first Droidcon, and it was a great experience. There was a beautiful community, and so many things to learn. I was also privileged to share my first talk on the Kotlin programming language.

How I Almost Put an iframe into a WebView

By Victoria Gonda

You don’t have to use an iframe to listen to JavaScript events on 3rd party webpages. Instead, the best solution just involves a little Kotlin.