Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #344

 
 

ISSUE #344

5th of March 2023
 

Hello Kotlin folks! We send you a few links this week where you can hopefully find some ideas and inspiration. Remember that we have also an account in Mastodon. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.



Announcements


Kotlin Weekly is on Mastodon
Kotlin Weekly is now on Mastodon. Make sure you follow us there, to get Kotlin updates every Sunday.
kotlin.social

Kotlin Libraries Author Experience Survey
JetBrains is running this survey to improve the experience of Kotlin library authors. Help JetBrains and influence the future of Kotlin libraries.
surveys.jetbrains.com



Articles


The suspend + receivers style in Kotlin
Alejandro Serrano posted an article blog post about a particular style of programming in Kotlin, heavily influenced by functional programming ideas but still Kotlin-idiomatic.
xebia.com

Reactive REST API With Spring, Kotlin and Coroutines
In this guide, Piotr from Codersee teaches you how to create a reactive REST API using Spring, Kotlin, coroutines, and Kotlin Flows entirely from scratch.
codersee.com

Modeling a remote request state
Fetching and displaying remote data is one of the most common tasks while programming. This article reviews the process of modeling a remote request state in Kotlin.
blog.carelesscoyotes.com

My attempt on explaining Kotlin Coroutines
Stefan shares with us his approach on how to explain Kotlin Coroutines after he had a discussion with some of his peers.
stefma.medium.com

Basic values in Kotlin
In this excerpt from Kotlin essentials, learn more about the basic values in Kotlin.
kt.academy



Android


How to use Bottom Sheets with Material 2 and 3 with examples in Jetpack Compose
New article by Alex Styl on how to use Bottom Sheets in Jetpack Compose
www.composables.co



Videos


Introducing Kotlin Context Receivers
Duncan McGregor introduces the experimental context receivers that were introduced in Kotlin 1.6.20 and have still to be finalized in his new video.
www.youtube.com

Graceful Resource Handling Using Structured Concurrency in Kotlin
In this video, Simon Vergauwen explains how we can use Arrow’s Resource DSL to achieve resource safety in the same way as when we are using use structured concurrency.
www.youtube.com
 


Jobs

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The mobile engineering team at Qonto currently has over 70 highly skilled engineers distributed in cross-functional teams, who come from all over the world, working closely to shape the best business finance solution app. Join us!
jobs.lever.co
 



Libraries


Introducing YChat-SDK: Simplifying the Integration of OpenAI’s Language Models with Kotlin Multiplatform
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.
medium.com

The story of developing an auto-write boilerplate plugin for Kotest
KotlinTestBoilerplate auto creates boilerplate code for tests in kotlin.
medium.com

cryptography-kotlin
Type-safe Multi-platform cryptography kotlin library
github.com

Kover Gradle Plugin
radle plugin for Kotlin code coverage tools: Kover and JaCoCo.
github.com

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Kotlin Weekly #343

Sunday, February 26, 2023

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

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

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