ISSUE #355

21st of May 2023

Announcements

Compose Multiplatform for iOS Is in Alpha
Compose Multiplatform, the declarative framework from JetBrains for building cross-platform user interfaces with Kotlin, is now able to target iOS. Read the official announcement here.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Select in Kotlin Coroutines
Coroutines provide the select function, which lets us await the result of the first coroutine that completes. Check out in this article how to use this experimental feature.
kt.academy

Kotlin Multiplatform presenters (or ViewModels): the lean way
In this article, Fred Porciuncula tells us how at Klima they take advantage of Android ViewModels in KMM projects.
proandroiddev.com

Kotlin and JPA — a good match or a recipe for failure?
Is there a proper way to use Hibernate in Kotlin efficiently? Lukasz Pieta answers this question in his new article.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Android

A taste of simple Android DI with Kotlin Context Receivers
Kotlin Context Receivers can be used for Dependency Injection. Ubiratan Soares gives us a taste of his approach in his new article.
ubiratansoares.dev

Videos

Precise thread management with Coroutine Dispatchers
In this stream, the folks from Kt Academy talk about Kotlin Coroutine Dispatchers and then Marcin Moskała answers some of the audience questions.
www.youtube.com

Defensive Coding for Safe Migrations
Duncan McGregor talks about how he faces programming when he wants to make migrations without breaking the entire codebase.
www.youtube.com

Can't Stop The KMP Train with Josh Shin from Volley
In this episode of A Touch of Multiplatform, Josh Shin talks about his journey with KMP and how he got it scaled, specially considering the iOS side.
www.youtube.com

Podcast

The Developers' Bakery #58: Confetti with John O’Reilly and Martin Bonnin
In this new episode of The Developers' Bakery, Nico speaks with John O'Reilly and Martin Bonnin about Kotlin, Confetti and more.
thebakery.dev

Libraries

Y—Chat releases v1.4.0
Y—Chat, the KMP client for Open AI, has released its new version 1.4.0 with support for Mac OS. Check it out!
github.com

Telephoto
Telephoto is a Compose library for displaying zoomable images with automatic sub‑sampling of large bitmap.
saket.github.io

Material Colors
A small utility that makes all Material colors easily accessible from Jetpack Compose.
github.com

Module Maker
Joe Roskopf created Module Maker, a plugin for Android Studio/IntelliJ to support with the creation of modules.
github.com

Ksoup
Ksoup is a lightweight Kotlin Multiplatform library for parsing HTML, extracting HTML tags, attributes, and text, and encoding and decoding HTML entities.
github.com

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