Zac Sweers

Optimizing Your Kotlin Build

Kotlin build times are often slow, this is a laundry list of common issues and what you can or can't do about them.

How I Work

A high level overview of my work style and how it helps improve my productivity.

Disposables Can Cause Memory Leaks

Every Disposable holds a strong reference to the observer it binds. This can lead to surprising memory leaks.

Kapt's Hidden Test Costs

TL;DR Kapt will run on your test builds even if you didn't ask it to.

Time in UI Programming

Tick Tock: Desugaring and Timezones

Dealing with timezone data in a desugaring world.