Anko is a Kotlin library which makes Android application development faster and easier. It makes your code clean and easy to read, and lets you forget about rough edges of the Android SDK for Java.
https://github.com/Kotlin/anko
What is Anko
DSL (Domain Specific Language)
Library written in Kotlin
Faster, Cleaner Android Development
UI Builder
Convenience utilities :
Intent and service wrappers
Async call handling
SQLite
Why use Anko
Type safe, Null safe - Compile time validation
Layout & Logic at one place
No XML parsing
Easily reusable
Concise
Why Anko performs better ?
inflate view from XML files
create view objects
find view by id with findViewById
Default Android UI
inflate view from XML files
create view objects
find view by id with findViewById
Anko DSL
XML
Anko DSL
Anko Layout
Anko Commons
Java
Intent
Anko Intent
Anko Commons
Anko Toast
Java
Toast
What else
Anko SQLite
Anko Coroutines
Setting up Kotlin and Anko
Android Studio / Intellij IDEA
Plugin -> Browse Repositories, search Kotlin and install it.
