ISSUE #307

19th of June 2022

Announcements

Koin Annotations 1.0 - Now Stable!
Koin Annotations project is now getting to its first stable version. With this, Koin folks are introducing a new way to declare modules, components, and new tooling capacity.
blog.kotzilla.io

Articles

Receivers and Extensions
Dave Leeds has published a new article, covering implicit and explicit receivers, extension functions, and extension properties.
typealias.com

What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer
Nicolas Fränkel has written an article summarizing what he is missing on Java after a decent amount of time as a Kotlin developer.
blog.frankel.ch

From Objects to Functions
Uberto Barbini has started a 3 parts blog post about functional programming in Kotlin, with this being the first one in the series.
medium.com

Kotlin Multiplatform In-Memory SQLDelight Database for Integration and UI Testing on iOS and Android
Databases are an integral part of mobile application development, so it's important that these features are properly tested. Learn how to do it with SQLDelight KMP.
akjaw.com

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developereconomics.net

Android

Creating a graph in Jetpack Compose
Many times we have to represent some data in form of a progressive graph.Saurabh Pant has put together some ideas to get it done with Compose.
proandroiddev.com

Coil's Image Loading Pipeline : Mappers
In this second article about Coil, the author speaks about the Mapper, the first component that’s used when the ImageRequest is executed.
theeclecticengineer.com

Videos

Factory Design Pattern in Kotlin
Alexey Soshin, the author of “Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices”, sits down with Sebastian to discuss the factory design pattern – a creational design pattern popularized by the “Gang of Four” book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”.
www.youtube.com

Events

Free GraphQL & Apollo Kotlin Workshop
Learn the basics and advantages of GraphQL for mobile app development, along with integrating and using Apollo Kotlin in this free, hands-on workshop on June 22 from 9-11am PST. Register for free.
www.apollographql.com

Libraries

BindsAdapter
BindsAdapter is an Android library to help you create and maintain an Adapter class easier via KSP.
github.com

ComposePPT
An experimental UI toolkit for generating PowerPoint presentation files using Compose.
github.com

Premo
Premo is a Kotlin Multiplatform library that helps you implement the Presentation Layer and share it on Android, iOS, Desktop and Web.
github.com

MMKV for Kotlin Multiplatform
MMKV for Kotlin Multiplatform is a wrapper for MMKV using KMP,
github.com

Vitamin
Another example of a Design System: Compose Decathlon Design System is based on Material Design, and obviously 100% Kotlin.
github.com

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