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ISSUE #303

22th of May 2022
 

Hello folks! Touchlab has released their new Xcode-Kotlin plugin, make sure to check it out if you are working with KMP. Now take a look at the selection of articles we have prepared for you this week.



Announcements


Improved Xcode-Kotlin plugin from Touchlab
Touchlab has released its new Xcode-Kotlin plugin to debug Kotlin code running in an iOS application, directly from Xcode. The new Beta CLI release enables, among other things, Homebrew installation.
github.com



Articles


Speeding up Kotlin Multiplatform
For Kotlin Multiplatform, many Gradle modules mean a very long Gradle Sync and IDE indexing time. Folks at YAZIO have tried to mitigate this, and they wrote an article showcasing some of their strategies.
medium.com

Toying with Kotlin's context receivers
Kotlin added the idea of Context Receivers in version 1.6.20. In this post, Nicolas Fränkel toys with them to understand how useful they can be.
blog.frankel.ch

Kotlin Coroutines dispatchers
A necessary functionality offered by the Kotlin Coroutines library is letting us decide on which thread (or pool of threads) a coroutine should be running (starting and resuming). This is done using dispatchers. Read more about them in this article from the book Kotlin Coroutines.
kt.academy

Unconfined Enums Adapter for Moshi
Is your server sending 🍌 when you were expecting 🍎 and 🍊? Here's a tale of unconfined enums in Kotlin.
medium.com

Error hierarchies and Kotlin sealed interfaces
Sealed interfaces differ from sealed classes, and they can cover different functionality. This article showcases the sealed interfaces to handle errors.
www.rockandnull.com

Key takeaways from our Kotlin Multiplatform journey
In this article, Yev Kanivets shares key takeaways from using Kotlin Multiplatform in 360Learning native mobile apps for almost two years to improve consistency, reduce the number of bugs, and finally, increase dev productivity.
medium.com


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Android


Android’s Kotlin-first approach
Did you ever have to justify at any project the usage of Kotlin on your Android app? Android is Kotlin first, and this page from Google explains the reasoning behind it.
developer.android.com

Using Square Workflow for Android & iOS
In this talk, Mohit Sarveiya will share how to use Workflow for building Android and iOS apps. Workflow is a library from Square that allows you to set up a unidirectional data flow architecture.
www.youtube.com



Libraries


Stacktrace-decoroutinator
Small lib for recovering stack trace in exceptions thrown in Kotlin Coroutines.
github.com

ListGen, Generate Lists From Functions That Have @Listed Annotations!
A KSP-based library that generates lists from your annotation usages.
github.com

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