Anko makes handling views and creating layouts extremely fast and easy. Using Anko, we can write clean code that is easy to read and write. In this recipe, we will learn how Anko can be used when dealing with views in Android.
I'll be using Android Studio 3 to write code. You can get started by creating a new project in Kotlin with a blank activity in Android Studio 3+ as we won't be using any code from other recipes. You also need an intermediate understanding of Android development. Ensure that you have added Anko dependencies to your project by adding the following lines to your app level build.gradle
file and syncing the project:
compile "org.jetbrains.anko:anko:$anko_version"
Here, $anko_version
is the latest version of Anko out there.