anvil

I agree with you, and I tried my best to change things. A few years ago I made Anvil - a React-ish framework for Android for native UI (reactive, declarative, works best with Redux) and have been using it in many production apps as long as I was doing Android development. But it still is a niche product, most developers prefer visual UI editor and whatever is the official Google way to do Android apps. Still, I'm very proud of Anvil. https://github.com/zserge/anvil Then, once I had to deal with desktop apps I figured out that HTML/CSS/JS seems to be the best option for custom (no native widgets) and modern (animations, shadows, nice fonts etc) UI. But Electron was a heavy beast, so I made a tiny wrapper over native browser engines (webviews). So far I'm very happy with it, it's much lighter and smaller than electron. And it's very conven

I can give Anvil as an example (https://github.com/zserge/anvil). It's a DSL for writing Android view layouts in Java and Kotlin. The DSL looks nicer than linear code of creating views and binding their properties, its look follows the hierarchy of the views, and the way it works results in a very fast rendering mechanism.

I designed my reactive mvvm micro-library (https://github.com/zserge/anvil) for Android with kotlin in mind, and so far it saved me lots time. Kotlin+Android is a great choice.

Nice project, looks good and Kotlin code is very readable. I personally prefer using Anvil for views since the project becomes much cleaner (while still being reactive). But that would be more MVVM rather than MVP. https://github.com/zserge/anvil

Kotlin is a very nice language especially from the Android developer perspective. It's so concise that you may not even use an IDE having only a text editor instead. In addition to Anko, there is also a similar (but much smaller) library that I maintain - https://github.com/zserge/anvil It is also a DSL for defining view layouts in code, much like Annko. The major difference is that Anvil supports data binding and has reactive nature (think of it as of react.js for android).

Build times are used to be slower, but I think recent Kotlin compilers have "daemon" mode to speed things up. I personally use Kotlin on a daily basis for Android development and build time is comparable to the one of Java. May I also recommend Anvil framework (https://github.com/zserge/anvil)? It brings declarative layouts and data bindings, which works best with the immutable data types of Kotlin (much like React does in the web).

If one is looking for something similar for Android - you might like Anvil: https://github.com/zserge/anvil

You might like Anvil: it's a declarative react-like UI library for Android. I personally use it a lot, and I normally write single-activity applications (e.g. I have my own backstack of views inside a single activity): https://github.com/zserge/anvil http://zserge.com/blog/anvil-2.html Kotlin is supported as well (http://zserge.com/blog/anvil-kotlin.html)

At the moment Anvil is my favourite child: - https://github.com/zserge/anvil - a new reactive UI library for android. It totally changed the way I develop android apps now. Also there is some tiny ones, but found useful over the years: - https://bitbucket.org/zserge/jsmn/wiki/Home - JSMN, a very fast and lightweight JSON parser for embedded systems - https://bitbucket.org/zserge/mucks - A wrapper for Tmux/Screen/DVTM to keep persistent terminal sessions. Usefule when you use terminal as an IDE - https://bitbucket.org/zserge/gambiarra - minimalist Lua unit-testing library