ISSUE #350

16th of April 2023

Hello Kotliners! We have been this week in Amsterdam attending the KotlinConf, and we do not know which of all the announcements is our favorite. Kotlin 2.0, Kotlin Multiplatform becoming stable, Kotlin inside Google... it is certainly an exciting time to be a Kotlin developer. Enjoy our selection of links for this week, check out the KotlinConf keynote if you haven't yet, and expect much more content over the upcoming weeks.

Announcements

KotlinConf 2023: A Look at the Opening Keynote
Did you miss the KotlinConf? In this link, you can watch the Keynote from the edition this year, and read a little summary of everything that was announced.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin DSL Is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds
When working with Gradle builds, Kotlin DSL will now be the default way. A great step forward for all those working with Gradle!
blog.jetbrains.com

What's new in multiplatform Jetpack libraries
The multiplatform Collections and DataStore libraries are now moving from experimental developer previews to alpha releases and will follow the normal release cycle of Jetpack libraries. Annotations is now also available for multiplatform.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Articles

Don’t use Java RedissonClient with Kotlin Coroutines for distributed Redis locks
Minsoo Cheong shares his experience dealing with unexpected lock acquisition behavior when using Java RedissonClient with Kotlin Coroutines for distributed Redis locks, and discusses the potential workaround.
medium.com

Is There an Equivalent of Spring Boot for Kotlin?
Jean-Michel Fayard discusses one dark issue with using Kotlin on the backend, and it is that everybody assumes that you are an Android enthusiast.
dev.to

A New Approach to the API End-to-End Testing in Kotlin
Oğuzhan Soykan proposes a different way of end-to-end testing your back-end Kotlin APIs, especially if you’re using Spring-Boot with Kotlin, or Ktor.
medium.com

Kotlin Coroutines Recipes
In this excerpt from the book Kotlin Coroutines, Marcin Moskala explores a collection of practical Kotlin Coroutine recipes that can help streamline your development process.
kt.academy

Android

Maximizing Mobile Code Reuse with Compose Multiplatform and MOKO Libraries
Alexey Mikhailov presents the MOKO libraries, a set of KMM libraries that are designed to work seamlessly with Compose Multiplatform.
medium.com

Videos

jOOQ vs Exposed
Part two of the interview of Duncan McGregor with Lukas Eder about jOOQ - the Java Object Oriented Query library.
www.youtube.com

What's new in Kotlin 1.8.20: K2 compiler, language updates, stdlib improvements, and Java interop
n this video, Anton Arhipov explains the new features introduced in Kotlin 1.8.20.
www.youtube.com

Conferences

Kotlin Dev Day
Xebia organizes the Kotlin Dev Day, this November in Amsterdam. Tickets and Call for Papers are already open. Hoping to see some of you there.
kotlindevday.com

Libraries

compose-circuit-casestudy
A simple case study of the Slack's Circuit Framework to build Compose-driven architecture for Kotlin and Android applications.
github.com

Synking all the things with CRDTs: Local first development
Charlie Tapping released a blog post on local first development and the use of CRDTs in distributed systems here, showcasing a KMP library he built in this space, Synk.
dev.to

Marathon 0.8.0 release notes
Marathon, the cross-platform test runner written for Android and iOS projects, has released version 0.8.0.
medium.marathonlabs.io

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