ISSUE #301

8th of May 2022

Hi folks! Kotlin 1.7.0 Beta has been announced, one step at a time! We have other interesting articles this week, make sure to check them out.

Announcements

Kotlin 1.7.0-Beta Released
The first preview of the 1.7.0 release is out. Check out this link to see the full list of features.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin for Developers — technical reviewers wanted!
The folks at Kotlin academy are looking for technical reviewers for the book Kotlin for Developers. If you want to help them, check out this article and contact them.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Kotlin in Action, 2nd Edition
Kotlin in Action is getting a second edition, and Sebastian Aigner is jumping as an author. We strongly recommend this book as a Kotlin resource!
twitter.com

Articles

Designing the Couchbase Kotlin API
Couchbase has released their Kotlin SDK version 1.0. David Nault wrote an article with some of the decisions they took during the development process.
blog.couchbase.com

Collections: Maps
Dave Leeds has released a new Kotlin article, where he talks about maps in Kotlin and how they work.
typealias.com

Monitoring Changes In Firebase Remote Config Using Kotlin, Slack, and Google Cloud Functions
Nate Ebel has written an article to help you set up a monitoring system for Firebase remote using Kotlin.
engineering.premise.com

Kotlin Sealed Class primer
In this post, Bevan Steele gives you a quick primer on the sealed classes feature.
www.rockandnull.com

Converting Gradle convention plugins to binary plugins
Gradle's convention plugins are a fantastic way to share common build configuration, why not take them a step further? Harsh Shandilya speaks about how to convert them to binary plugins.
msfjarvis.dev

How to schedule jobs with Quartz on Ktor
Marco Gomiero wrote about how you can schedule jobs with Quartz and Ktor.
www.marcogomiero.com

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bytes.dev

Android

Android KSP guide for dummies by a Dummy
In the first article of the series, Aniket Bhoite explains what is Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), and which problems it solves.
dev.to

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

SlimeKT — Kotlin Powered open source project. (Android app with Ktor backend)
SlimeKT is an open-source article sharing platform where you can personalize, subscribe to your favorite topics or get daily-read reminders
medium.com

Expressus
Expressus is a KMM sample project illustrating a few principles to build KMM apps.
github.com

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