ISSUE #356

28th of May 2023

Announcements

Kotlin 1.9.0-Beta Pre-release
Kotlin 1.9.0-Beta Pre-release has been published on GitHub. Check out the new features, bugfixes and goodies coming in this new version.
github.com

detekt v1.23.0
The following upcoming stable release of detekt is now out: 1.23.0. You can read the full list of features included here.
github.com

Articles

How to start with Coroutines in SpringBoot applications - Part 2
Second article on the series by Matthias Schenk, where he goes into the details of some of the topics he explored in the first one.
medium.com

HTTP chunk requests with Android and ktor
In this very short article, you can learn what HTTP Chunk requests are, and how to use them with ktor and Android.
enriquelopezmanas.medium.com

Introduction to the Flow
This article by Marcin Moskala gives details about Flows, their motivation, and how to use them.
kt.academy

JDK 17: Using ParallelGC for the Kotlin process in Android Builds
In this article, Iñaki Villar how he used ParallelGC in the Now in Android app and the measurements he got.
dev.to

Namespace for Extension Functions
How can you have the advantages of using extension functions without any of their limitations? Marcello Galhardo aims to answer this question in his new post.
marcellogalhardo.dev

Gradle Cheat Sheet for Android and KMP Projects – Plugins
The folks from Touchlab have put togeter a Cheat Sheet with how gradle works, and they dive deeper into Gradle Plugins.
touchlab.co

Kotlin Multiplatform: Writing Platform Specific Implementations with Contract Testing
Aleksander Jaworski shows how to avoid problems while writing platform-specific implementations with Kotlin Multiplatform.
akjaw.com

Videos

Building Multiplatform Apps with Compose with Mohit Sarveiya
In this talk, Mohit Sarveiya goes over setting up Jetpack Compose Multiplatform and shows how to architect an app where the UI is shared using the library.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

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

Decomat
Decomat is a Scala-Style Deconstructive Pattern-Matching for Kotlin.
github.com

http4k-connect 3.40.4.0 released with OpenAI API support
The team from http4k has just released v3.40.4.0 of http4k-connect, which has initial support for the OpenAI API.
github.com

Retrofit Adapters
Retrofit call adapters for modeling network responses using Kotlin Result, Jetpack Paging3, and Arrow Either.
github.com

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