ISSUE #299

24th of April 2022

Hello folks! We hope you have enjoyed the last days of holidays, if you did take them. We received a few interesting articles this week on Compose recomposition - please, enjoy our selection of articles for the upcoming week!

Announcements

Compose 1.2.0-alpha08
The next Compose alpha version has been released. Check out the commits included in this link.
developer.android.com

Articles

Implement Kotlin Flow race/amb operator
This article implements the race/amb operator for Flow, and explains its usage.
proandroiddev.com

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile — sharing the UI State management
In this article, Guilherme Delgado writes about how we can share the UI in a KMP Project.
proandroiddev.com

Keep Rules in the Age of Kotlin
Proguard in the Age of Kotlin certainly differs from the one in the Age of Java. Read this article to know more about it.
www.guardsquare.com

Using the `kotlin-dsl` Gradle Plugin forces Kotlin 1.4 Compatibility
Sam Edwards observed that he was getting a strange message about Kotlin 1.4, despite using 1.6. He explains his journey in this article.
handstandsam.com

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bytes.dev

Android

Understanding Composition and Side Effects
Composition is not always widely understood. There are some functions known as Side Effects that happen with the composition. In this article we take a look at LaunchedEffect, SideEffect and DisposableEffect.
okmanideep.github.io

How can I debug recompositions in Jetpack Compose?
Recompositions might be trickier to debug in Compose. This article by Vinay Gaba explains how can we effectively debug them.
www.jetpackcompose.app

Composable metrics
Chris Banes has explored the new Jetpack Compose Compiler metrics. Check this out to see the metrics that are being used to measure the performance of your composables and more.
chris.banes.dev

Modeling Retrofit Responses With Sealed Classes and Coroutines
In this article, Jaewoong Eum covers modeling responses with sealed classes and coroutines in a multi-layered architecture.
getstream.io

Videos

Challenges of building Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries
In this session by the GDG Silicon Slopes, Mohit Sarveiya talks about the challenges of building Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries.
www.youtube.com

Context Receivers: What They Are and How to Use Them
In this new video by Sebastian Aigner, you can see what Context receivers are and how to use them.
www.youtube.com

Jobs

Android Engineer - Remote First - UK
CollectingCars is a cutting-edge online auction platform, and we are growing. Our mobile team is building out a brand new experience using the latest technologies and we are looking for passionate Android Engineers.
collectingcars.com

Podcast

70 Billion Events per Day – Adobe & Kotlin
In this new episode of Talking Kotlin, Rares Vlasceanu and Catalin Costache from Adobe talk about how they handle 70 000 000 000 events per day with the help of Kotlin and Ktor.
talkingkotlin.com

Libraries

slack-gradle-plugin
Slack has open-sourced the core Gradle plugin and associated logic used for Slack's Android app.
github.com

Auto Manifest
Auto Manifest is a utility to generate AndroidManifest.xml in simple libraries so that you don't have to.
github.com

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