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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