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Mirror and Kotlin

Author: Linton Ye On: Feb 22, 2015 Categories: Features

If you haven’t tried Kotlin, you should really check it out, now! Kotlin gives us lambdas, null safety, better generics and many other features that help us write safe and concise code. Its seamless interoperability with Java, first-class IDE support and small footprint make it a great choice for writing Android apps – It’s simply better than Java (even Java 8). For more details, check out this comprehensive report written by Jake Wharton.

How is Mirror related to Kotlin? If you’ve heard of Mirror Sandbox, you’ll guess it right. Yes! Mirror will soon be able to hot-swap Kotlin code (together with Java code and Android resources).

Watch the quick demo below :

Android UI development on steroids!

Sylwester Madej, CEO at Outline and Android development coach

Android UI development on steroids!

Sylwester Madej, CEO at Outline and Android development coach

If your goal is high quality app you will have a ton of ui tweaks. mirror saves time. simple as that.

Marcin Czech founder at androidgecko.com

The ability to mock data for my list view with 3 different layout files for the items saved me a tremendous amount of tweaking. I was able to get my designer to sign off on the layouts long before I even wrote my adapter.

William Best, Android Engineer at VOKAL Interactive

I found that Mirror really sped everything up for us in Android Studio. Mocking up things with dummy data is a nice touch.

Steff Kelsey, Principal Software Engineer at GoodLux Technology

It’s absolutely awesome. I worked an entire afternoon on an animation for my app, without the sandbox I probably need more than a full day.

João Gouveia, Senior Android Developer, Passei Direto S/A

Thanks for the awesome app, I can see this will save me HEAPS of time!

Chris Colborne, Senior Software Engineer at The University of Queensland

What’s really outstanding is the direct support from the developers. I always got very quick and helpful feedback on any issues arose.

Florian Weigl, Mobile Developer, Immowelt AG Nuremberg

Mirror saved me a lot of days of routine work in past, and now we are adopting its sandbox features on large projects with Kotlin as prime language.. it definitely boosts some of critical time-consuming operations, like tweaking animations and custom views.

Dmitriy Voronin, Senior Mobile Apps Developer at Avito

My development productivity has skyrocketed since adding Mirror to my workflow! I can only imagine the hours (and days) I could have saved if I had starting using it sooner! Mirror is something that all Android developers should have in their tool belt!

Patrick Hammond, Founder + Android Development, Atomic Robot

In my line of work , i consult various companies, mentor and guide them
towards building great Android app and experience.
Mirror is the tool of choice, The ability to show live changes and how the layout can interact with animations,resources and styles is worth every cent.
Even demoing homemade custom views with fast iterations helps the massages from Product/Design level to real world apps.
Can't wait for future versions :)

Yossi Elkrief
Android Group leader
Tikal Knowledge LTD

Mirror is great. Once you use it, you won't give it back. It's pretty stable and perfectly integrated with Android Studio. You should definitely give it a try!

Mateusz Grzechocinski, Project Lead Enginner, Polidea

Using Mirror is like laser eye surgery for Android development. Once you use it, you'll never go back. I'm always astounded by how accurately I can make my apps match my mock-ups. It's a tool I can't live without. Get rid of blurry, unfocused, Android app layouts! Look in the Mirror.

Neal Sanche
Android Team Lead
Robots and Pencils

Mirror has dramatically improved the quality and speed of designing our layouts, and the support has been second to none.

Josh Rose
Software Engineer
ChoreMonster

Mirror has saved me a huge amount of time! It's already paid for itself several times over and I'm really happy I discovered it.

Jonathan Ritchey
Mobile Engineer
Kurbo Health, Inc.

With Mirror and its ability to catch any changes I made in project files related to my custom views, I can develop those views in less time via an iterative process of writing of code and previewing it almost instantly on an Android device that is really amazing and fun. Mirror is a great helper when developing applications for Android.

Martin Albedinsky
Android Software Engineer
MOFA

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