ISSUE #323

9th of October 2022

Announcements

Android Dev Summit ‘22: Coming to you, online and around the world!
The Android Dev Summit has been announced. It will host a few offline editions, as well as an online one. Do not forget to check it out!
android-developers.googleblog.com

Keynotes announced for the KotlinConf
The Keynote sessions have been announced for the KotlinConf. This year, Kevlin Henney and Roman Elizarov will be holding the opening sessions. Hope to see you there!
kotlinconf.com

Articles

Overcoming KMM’s Early Adopter Blues
Folks at Touchlab have been pioneers to adopt KMM on its initial state. In this interesting article, they showcase some of the challenges and difficulties they found, and how they navigate them.
touchlab.co

Context receivers
Context receivers were added in Kotlin 1.6.20 and do not work in earlier versions. This new excerpt from Functional Kotlin explains how they work and how to use them.
kt.academy

Apache Kafka With Spring Boot and Kotlin
In this step-by-step guide, Piotr Codersee shows you how to use Apache Kafka with Spring Boot and Kotlin.
codersee.com

Writing a Property Based Testing library in Kotlin, a Journey
In this first article of the series, Jordi Pradel writes about how to write a PBT library using Kotlin, and narrates his experiences and challenges.
blog.agilogy.com

The Art of Multiplatform Programming: The Secret to Maximizing Shared Code
Derek Lee summarizes some of the secret sauce to achieve maximum shared code when working with KMM.
artandscienceofcoding.com

Android

Testing Composable in Jetpack Compose Android - Testing Fundamentals
Saurabh Pantwrites in this article about the fundamentals of testing with Compose.
medium.com

Videos

Deferring Error Handling With A Kotlin Result Type
In this new video, Duncan McGregor explains how we can defer the error handling with Kotlin using Result Types.
www.youtube.com

5 Fun Ways to Use Extension Functions in Kotlin
Dave Leeds showcases some real world scenarios when we can apply extension functions.
www.youtube.com

Videos from the Droidcon New York are out
The videos from Droidcon New York are now live! You can now browse them and see some of the sessions that were held.
www.droidcon.com

Introduction to Ktor: Build Web Server in Kotlin
In this video, you will learn what Ktor provides us out of the box along with some of its features, and its flexible model.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Kafka-Kotlin-Native
Kafka-Kotlin-Native is a fully native Apache Kafka client for Kotlin Native. Uses native c-interop with highly performant and the librdkafka c client library.
github.com

Showkase
Showkase is an annotation-processor-based Android library that helps you organize, discover, search and visualize Jetpack Compose UI elements.
github.com

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