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ISSUE #343

26th of February 2023
 



Announcements


Kotlin DSL goodies in Gradle 8.0
Gradle 8.0 has delivered a few Kotlin DSL goodies. Check them in this announcement.
docs.gradle.org



Articles


The Silent Killer That’s Crashing Your Coroutines
A technical deep-dive into the nasty things that can happen to an application when cancellation exceptions go rogue, including Schrödinger’s Coroutine.
betterprogramming.pub

KMM: What's Under the hood?
Anantha Krishna wrote an article with some of the underlying existing mechanisms in KMM.
medium.com

Kotlin and JPA — a good match or a recipe for failure?
Is JPA a good match for Kotlin? Łukasz Pięta wrote this article summarizing his thoughts on JPA in Kotlin, especially using Hibernate.
medium.com

Advanced Search and Filtering with JPA Specifications in Kotlin
In this blog, Tomasz Scharmach demonstrates how we can make use of JPA Specifications for advanced search and filtering.
brightinventions.pl

Functions in Kotlin
In this excerpt from Kotlin essentials, learn how Functions work in Kotlin.
kt.academy

Using KMM-ViewModel library to share VM between iOS and Android
A frequent question when using KMM is whether to share the view model between the iOS and Android clients. John O'Reilly shares his thoughts on the topic in this article.
johnoreilly.dev



Android


Advanced Layout concepts
In this article, Simona Stojanovic dives into the Compose Layout phase and constraints and covers them from another perspective — how to harness their power to build custom layouts in Compose.
medium.com



Videos


Using PostgreSQL as an Append-only Datastore with Kotlin and Exposed
In this new video, Duncan McGregor refactors his existing file-based storage, extracting an interface that can be implemented with files, in-memory, or with Exposed.
www.youtube.com

The Multiplatform Revolution: How Meetup® Adopted KMM
In this episode of A Touch of Multiplatform (ATOM), Pamela Hills sits down to talk with Meetup’s Colin Lee and Annyse Davis about how their teams evaluated multiplatform options before going all in with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile.
www.youtube.com



Libraries


Y-Chat
Y-Chat is a ChatGPT unofficial SDK using KMM and generating artifacts for iOS and Android. Now you can finally integrate ChatGPT on your Android and iOS apps.
github.com

EffeKt
EffeKt is a reactive library inspired by Vue.js. It seeks to provide reactive primitives to Kotlin for building functionally coupled systems.
github.com

Decompose
Decompose is a Kotlin Multiplatform lifecycle-aware business logic component (aka BLoCs) with routing functionality and pluggable UI.
github.com

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Kotlin Weekly #342

Sunday, February 19, 2023

ISSUE #342 19th of February 2023 Articles Null safety: Kotlin vs. Java Nicolas Fränkel expands his views on the problem of nullability and how it's solved in Kotlin and Java. blog.frankel.ch

Kotlin Weekly #341

Sunday, February 12, 2023

ISSUE #341 12th of February 2023 Announcements The K2 Compiler is going stable in Kotlin 2.0 The K2 compiler will become stable soon - and we also know that there will be a Kotlin 1.9 before Kotlin 2.0

Kotlin Weekly #340

Sunday, February 5, 2023

ISSUE #340 5th of February 2023 Announcements We Are Improving Library Authors' Experience! Are you a Kotlin librarian? The JetBrains team explains in this post some of the things they are doing to

Kotlin Weekly #339

Sunday, January 29, 2023

ISSUE #339 27th of January 2023 Hello from Berlin Kotliners, where we were attending the GDE Summit! We have prepared a few links to sweeten your upcoming week. Announcements Advent of Code 2022 in

Kotlin Weekly #338

Sunday, January 22, 2023

ISSUE #338 22nd of January 2023 Announcements Android Studio Electric Eel Android Studio Electric Eel is out, and contains a few goodies that will help us when working with Compose. Check it out!

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