The latest version of IntelliJ IDEA (2021.1 at the time of this publication) has a cool splash screen based on a grid containing different coloured shapes like this below:

The goal of this post is to implement a Jetpack Compose composable that mimics this pattern.

As we can see the…

When starting to work with Jetpack Compose (now that it is in beta 🎉) and stateful components, we easily get used to define values based on a mutable state which are also remembered. But there are two independent concepts when we write a line of code like below:

var clicks…

After spending the last weeks working on a library, today, I am happy to announce the first beta release of poetimizely. (Thanks to Ralph who is contributing to the project 🙂).

What is poetimizely?

poetimizely is a library to generate type safe accessors for Optimizely experiments and features.

Type safe means that referencing…

One of the things that feels much different in Kotlin compared to Java is the type system. The void keyword for example is not present in Kotlin, so Unit type is used instead:

fun functionReturningNoValue(): Unit {
    println(“Hello”)
}

I would say that this approach is more consistent than using…

Any

This is an easy one, Any is just the “root” type, so every other type extends from it. It is like Object in Java, in fact, the compiled code for a value of type Any is an Object.

// Kotlin

val greeting: Any = "Hi there!"

// Java

private final…

When it comes to decide between using an enum or a sealed class in Kotlin, I’ve seen several situations where developers where using them indistinctly.

Generally speaking, sealed classes are more powerful than enums. …