ISSUE #322

2nd of October 2022

Announcements

Kotlin 1.7.20 Released
Kotlin 1.7.20 has been released. There are a few interesting goodies coming up in this version. Check out the full announcement to learn more.
blog.jetbrains.com

Koin 3.2.2 - Fresh updates before the next milestones!
Koin 3.2.2 has been released. It's time to talk about the new fresh updates (especially for Jetpack Compose & Android Scope) and what's coming in Koin 3.3.
blog.kotzilla.io

Articles

Swift/Kotlin ViewModel alignment in a Kotlin Multiplatform project
New article by John O'Reilly, discussing how we should align our ViewModels in Swift and Kotlin when we are working on a KMP project.
johnoreilly.dev

Basic KSP validation
The set up and usage of the KSP API can be quite intimidating to begin with but it can be quite rewarding once you’ve found your feet. Paul Samuels discusses the validation process here.
paul-samuels.com

Exploring 'select' expression of Kotlin coroutines
Shreyas Patil wrote about the select expression APIs of Kotlin Coroutines
blog.shreyaspatil.dev

Mutation Testing in Kotlin
How can we be sure that our tests check what we need to? Here is where mutation testing comes in handy, and Isabel Garrido wrote an article to explain how it works.
medium.com

Sponsored

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www.runway.team

Android

The Unholy Composable
Can you tell me how to get a value from a previous composition? It turns out it is possible. Bill Phillips wrote an article about his findings.
www.billjings.net

Snapshot Testing in Kotlin and Android
Snapshot testing solves a few issues by automatically comparing a previous and a new build. In this post from Quickbird Studios you can see how to do it in Kotlin and Android.
quickbirdstudios.com

Videos

Using Higher Order Functions to Retry Errors In Kotlin
In this new episode of his exploration of Test Driven Development implementation in Kotlin, Duncan McGregor explores how to use Higher Order Functions to retry errors in Kotlin.
www.youtube.com

Podcast

KaMPKit with Kevin Galligan
Nico Corti welcomes in this new chapter Kevin Galligan, where they speak about KMP, KmMPKit and more Kotlin things.
thebakery.dev

Libraries

Whetstone
Whetstone is a dependency injection framework for Android that simplifies working with Dagger 2 using all the powers of Anvil.
github.com

Dowel
A Kotlin Symbol Processor to generate Compose PreviewParameterProviders-
github.com

kInject2 (k2)
A Kotlin multiplatform dependency injection framework.
github.com

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