ISSUE #336

8th of January 2023

Announcements

Speakers for KotlinConf announced!
The full list of speakers for the KotlinConf has been announced! We hope to see a few of you there folks.
kotlinconf.com

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kotlin.social

Articles

Kotlin 1.8 available on Compile Explorer
Kotlin 1.8 is now available on Compile Explorer. Check out this small contribution by Jake Wharton to know more about it.
mastodon.jakewharton.com

An operator’s meaning should be consistent with its function name
Operator overloading is a powerful feature and, like most powerful features, it is dangerous as well. See how we should properly name them on an excerpt from the book Effective Kotlin.
kt.academy

Mutation testing in Kotlin II
In this second article of the series, Isabel Garrido further explores mutation testing in Kotlin.
medium.com

Demystifying Kotlin sealed classes
Tomas Michalkevic has written an article providing an overview of Kotlin sealed classes and how to use them.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Android

How to handle focus in Jetpack Compose with examples
This guide by Alex Styl will show you how to handle text focus in Jetpack Compose using the different available APIs
www.composables.co

Jetpack Compose Migration: Best Practices and Strategies
Abhishek Saxena provides a few tips on how to proceed to migrate an app to Jetpack Compose.
proandroiddev.com

7 Android Resources To Level Up As a Developer
Jaewoong Eum has put together some Android resources that you should check to level up. Thanks for the mention!
getstream.io

Videos

onStart & onCompletion Lifecycle Operators
In this video, Lukas Lechner teaches you all about the lifecycle operators onStart and onCompletion.
www.youtube.com

Kotlin assertion libraries - JUnit, Hamkrest and Strikt
Duncan McGregor takes a look at improving his usage of JUnit, checking right after Hamkrest and before using Strikt for fluent assertions.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Kotlin Compile Testing
A library for testing Kotlin and Java annotation processors, compiler plugins, and code generation.
github.com

Pedestal
OpenSavvy Pedestal is a collection of open-source utilities for unified software architecture, aiming to solve common problems in a simple and elegant way with Kotlin Multiplatform.
gitlab.com

KMM-ViewModel
A library that allows you to share ViewModels between Android and iOS.
github.com

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