ISSUE #317

28th of August 2022

Hello Kotliners! If you are planning to attend the Droidcon NY make sure to drop by and say hi, we will bring stickers. Enjoy our selection of articles for the upcoming week!

Announcements

Apollo Kotlin: New Multiplatform Memory Manager
Apollo Kotlin 3.5.0 will support the new Memory Model for KMM. Read in this post the details.
www.apollographql.com

Droidcon NYC iOS app with Compose
Droidcon NYC is happening this week. Like always, Touchlab did an excellent job at organizing it, including taking care of the official apps. See how they developed the official iOS app using Compose.
touchlab.co

Articles

Scopes and Scope Functions
In his new article of the Kotlin Illustrated Guide, Dave Leeds talks about Scope and Scope functions.
typealias.com

Lambda expressions
Lambda expressions are a shorter alternative to anonymous functions. Learn how to use them, what special support they have, and what traps they generate in this excerpt from the book Functional Kotlin.
kt.academy

KSP for Code-Generation
Jintin has put an article together explaining how we can use the Kotlin Symbol Processing to generate code.
medium.com

Celebrating 5 Years of Kotlin with the most useful features
Priya Sindkar Shah has put together some of the most useful features we can find in Kotlin to celebrate its 5th anniversary.
medium.com

Sponsored

Everything You Need to Know About Android Vitals
Is your Android game or app exceeding the bad behavior thresholds in the Google Play Console? Join this webinar for a deep dive into Android vitals, including the data it provides, the gaps it has, and what you can do to put your team in the best position to succeed.
go.embrace.io

Android

Testing Room database with Coroutines and Flows — Testing Fundamentals
Saurabh Pant has come up with a new article, showcasing how we can test a Room database using Coroutines and Flows.
blog.devgenius.io

Videos

Kotlin Engineering - Feature Flags to Bypass Branches
Duncan McGregor adds a feature flag that will allow him to see changes as he progresses, but hide those changes from production.
www.youtube.com

Podcast

Compose in CashApp with Jake Wharton and Saket Narayan
In this last episode of Talking Kotlin, Jake Wharton and Saket Narayan talk about how Kotlin and Compose are used in CashApp and why it is time for XML to die.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Kotlin Algorithms and Design Patterns
This repository contains the most common algorithms and data structures written in the Kotlin language with simple and concise code.
github.com

Kotlin Clean Architecture Backend
Kotlin backend based on the Clean Architecture principles. Ktor, JWT, Exposed, Flyway, OpenAPI/REST & KGraphQL/GraphQL generated endpoints, Gradle.
github.com

Résultat
Résultat is a fork of Kotlin Result with a loading state.
github.com

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