Ivan Garza

  • Ivan is an Android engineer at Mixhalo, a passionate fútbol fan, and an amateur salsa maker.

   



6 Stories by Ivan Garza

Getting started with Android’s intent filters

Explore Android’s intent filters, some common examples of them, and advanced ways of using them.
January 9, 2023 0 9 min read

Kotlin data mapping: Comparing map(), flatMap(), and flatten()

Explore the Kotlin's extension functions, map(), flatMap(), and flatten() and how they address the need for efficient collection manipulation.
December 13, 2022 0 4 min read

Kotlin dependency injection: Koin vs. Hilt

Learn about the two most popular dependency injection libraries for Modern Android Development: Dagger’s Hilt and Kotlin’s Koin.
November 11, 2022 0 7 min read

Comparing the Kotlin suspend and runBlocking functions

Explore multi-threading in Kotlin through the use of coroutines, especially the suspend and runBlocking functions.
October 27, 2022 0 7 min read

Comparing control flow statements in Kotlin and Swift

Control flow statements like Kotlin’s when and Swift’s switch statements are used to break up typical top-to-bottom flows of code execution.
September 29, 2022 0 5 min read

How to extend classes in Kotlin without using inheritance

In this tutorial, we compare and contrast inheritance and Kotlin extensions to understand the pros and cons of each.
May 23, 2022 0 4 min read