ISSUE #310

10th of July 2022

Hello from the Droidcon Berlin, Kotliners! We met many friendly folks here after a long conference hiatus, including our favorite Kotliners. Now enjoy our selection of articles for the upcoming week.

Announcements

Kotlin 1.7.10
Although there has not yet been a big announcement regarding Kotlin 1.7.10, there is already a Release tag on GitHub. Check it out!
github.com

Articles

Collection processing in Kotlin: Basic functions
In this new article from the Kotlin Academy, learn some of the basic functions that we use when we are dealing with functions in Kotlin.
kt.academy

A Perception of Exception in Kotlin Coroutines
This article covers and simplifies how exception handling works for coroutines.
betterprogramming.pub

(Not so) Gentle introduction to Polymorphic Serialization in Kotlin
Polymorphism can be useful in a variety of scenarios. In this article, Gideon explores how to use the kotlinx.serialization library for polymorphic serialization.
medium.com

Infix in Kotlin
A very neat and highly underused feature of kotlin is infix notations. Deepak Nair writes about how we can do infixing with Kotlin.
medium.com

Writing Paparazzi tests for your Kotlin Multiplatform projects
Paparazzi is a Gradle plugin and library that enables writing UI tests for Android screens that run entirely on the JVM, without needing a physical device or emulator. Learn in this article how to write tests for your KMP projects.
msfjarvis.dev

Sponsored

Runway is to Play Console, as Kotlin is to Java
Skip Play Console and release faster and more reliably with Runway. Runway integrates with all of your tools, enabling end-to-end automation and seamless coordination across your team.
www.runway.team

Videos

Migrating to Kotlin State & Shared Flows
Mohit Sarveiya speaks in this video from the Droidcon San Francisco about how you can migrate to Kotlin State and Shared Flows.
www.droidcon.com

Kotlin and Java Interoperability in Spring Projects
In this video, you will learn how some important details you need to know about calling Java from Kotlin code and vice versa (not only in Spring projects, despite the title.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Validator
Validator is a library to help you validate input fields by notify types
github.com

zeplin-asset-download-gradle-plugin
A simple Gradle plugin that lets you create a download asset from Zeplin and convert them to vector drawables automatically, using 100% Kotlin and be up and running in a few seconds.
github.com

Module KotlinX Serialization JsonPath
KotlinX Serialization JsonElement DSL based on Arrow Optics.
github.com

chess.kt
This fantastic project has developed a Kotlin multiplatform chess backend. It also contains examples of its usage as a desktop app.
github.com

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