ISSUE #304

29th of May 2022

Hi all. We hope you enjoy our upcoming selection of articles for this week, including our own one on KMP and Swift. Have a great start of the week.

Announcements

Kotlin API for Apache Spark: Streaming, Jupyter, and More
Pasha Finkelshteyn gives an overview of Kotlin API for Apache Spark, a project that gives Kotlin bindings and several extensions for Apache Spark.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

KMP, iOS Developers and Production
Enrique López-Mañas wrote an article analyzing KMP and its readiness, specifically from the iOS side of things.
medium.com

Common Kotlin Coroutines use-cases
Excerpt from the Kotlin Coroutines book by Marcin Moskala, this time discussing the most important coroutines use-cases, both for backend and for Android.
kt.academy

19 Things to Know About Kotlin Flow — A Quick Note
Radhika Saliya wrote you an article with 15 useful notes about Kotlin flows.
blog.canopas.com

Inside Koin 3.2 - Optimizing your Modules with Includes
In this article from Koin 3.2, a new dive into a new feature that will significantly help us write our Koin modules: module includes.
blog.kotzilla.io

Why Kotlin does not have “void” return type?
Did you ever wonder why Kotlin does not use void, like Java, to specify that a function does not return anything? Check out the explanation by Mirkamal Qasımov in this article-
medium.com

Xcode Kotlin CLI
Tadeas explains some of the improvements coming with the Xcode Kotlin CLI to develop with Swift and KMP.
touchlab.co

Android

Google I/O 2022 Recap: Top 5 Takeaways for Android Devs
Emmanuel Okiche has summarized some of the announcements that happened at the Google I/O.
www.raywenderlich.com

Coroutines on Android
In this article Stevan Milovanovic tries to explain why coroutines are useful and why would you want to use them in your project.
medium.com

Videos

A Result for Our Issues
In recent years Daniele and Claudio saw several approaches to handling asynchronous tasks on Android. Now Kotlin coroutines seem the way to go, but by default, they use exceptions to propagate failures.
www.youtube.com

Fully Qualified Names to the Rescue
In this new video, Sebastian shows you a simple Kotlin trick to call exactly the function that you need, using the power of fully qualified names!
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Compose Compiler Reports to HTML Generator
CLI utility to convert Jetpack Compose compiler metrics and reports to beautified HTML page.
github.com

KBuilder
KBuilder helps you to generate a builder pattern-related class in Kotlin.
github.com

Truthish
A Kotlin multiplatform unit testing library inspired by / similar to Google Truth.
github.com

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