ISSUE #344

5th of March 2023

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Announcements

Kotlin Weekly is on Mastodon
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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

Qonto is the leading European business finance solution. We energize SMEs and freelancers so that they can achieve more.
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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