ISSUE #300

1st of May 2022

Hi folks! Today it is our issue number 300. We have been publishing this newsletter for over 5 years now, and it is thanks to all of you, dear readers and contributors, that the duty makes sense. For the next 300 issues!

Announcements

Kotlin Desktop Developers Survey
JetBrains is conducting a survey to identify what value Kotlin brings to desktop developers. They’re looking at new ways to make the Kotlin experience better for desktop developers – and they need your help!
surveys.jetbrains.com

Kotlin 1.6.21 released
Kotlin 1.6.21 has been released, including mostly fixes. Check out the release notes to see everything contained.
github.com

Articles

Publishing an obfuscated kotlin library
Can we follow any particular strategy when obfuscating a library written in Kotlin? Yes we can, and this article by Iury Souza guides you through it.
dev.to

Flow Notes
Maia Grotepass updated her blog with a collection of all the sketchnotes bits and pieces about Kotlin Flow she had floating around.
www.maiatoday.net

My first Space service
Alexander Nozik has posted an overview about how to set up your first service with JetBrains Space, providing also an introduction to its API.
dev.to

How to Deploy a Kotlin Microservice to AWS with App Runner
In this step-by-step tutorial, Piotr Wolak shows us how to deploy a Kotlin Microservice using Docker and AWS App Runner.
www.freecodecamp.org

Multithreaded web applications in Kotlin with Web Workers
Arjan van Wieringen wrote an article about how to make and use Web Workers in Kotlin/JS.
avwie.github.io

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Android

Testing Kotlin coroutines on Android
Google has released a guide on how to test Kotlin coroutines on Android. If that is something you do (or want to do) check out this link now.
developer.android.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

Libraries

Ktorfit
HTTP client / Kotlin Symbol Processor for Kotlin Multiplatform (Js, Jvm, Android, Native, iOS) using KSP and Ktor clients inspired by Retrofit
github.com

Kompose Material Design Components (KMDC)
A set of Kotlin wrappers over material-components-web@13.0.0 library providing Jetbrains Compose DSL for building WEB UIs.
github.com

Krossbow
Krossbow is a Kotlin multiplatform coroutine-based STOMP client over WebSockets, with built-in conversions.
github.com

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