ISSUE #358

11th of June 2023

Announcements

Join the Livestream: Launch Your Kotlin Course with New Materials for Educators!
Are you looking to launch your own Kotlin course? JetBrains is here to support you, check out this link to know more.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Crash Course on the Kotlin Compiler | K1 + K2 Frontends, Backends
Quick detour by Amanda Hinchman on why there are so many versions and how it affects data transformations in the compiler
medium.com

Retry and distinct functions on Flow
Learn how can we use retry and distinct on Kotlin Flow in this new excerpt from the book Kotlin Coroutines.
kt.academy

How to use Arrow’s Either for exception handling in your application
In this new article, Matthias Schenk talks about how to use Arrow's Either to handle exceptions in your app.
medium.com

Building Kotlin Coroutine Framework from Scratch: Part 2 -Reinventing Dispatchers
In this second article of the series, Omkar Tenkale keeps exploring how to build a coroutine from scratch.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

The Imitation Tortoise's song - a fleety conversion from imperative to functional - Will you join the dance?
Maia Grotepass looks at the AI assistant in Fleet and Kotlin conversion of imperative to functional programming style.
www.maiatoday.net

Android

Android 14 Beta 3 and Platform Stability
Android 14 has reached stability, meaning that you can count on a final API. Check out all the changes that will be included here.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Kotlin Multiplatform for Android Developers
If you're already building apps using Kotlin Multiplatform, use the converted Jetpack libraries in your multiplatform projects: Annotations, Collections, and DataStore.
developer.android.com

Videos

Kotlin goes WebAssembly!
Kotlin 1.8.20 introduces the newest multiplatform compilation target for Kotlin – WebAssembly! Sebastian Aigner presents this feature in his new video.
www.youtube.com

Debugger-based Development
In this new video, Duncan McGregor explores the age-old technique of running the app in the debugger and hot reloading our code and the browser until we have something that looks and works.
www.youtube.com

Build Your First Compose Multiplatform App (KMM)
In this video by Philipp Lackner you'll learn how you can use Compose Multiplatform to build UI for both Android & iOS in Kotlin.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

What's new in Koin? Koin 3.4 + Koin Annotations 1.2
Read out more about the release of Koin 3.4.1 and Koin Annotations 1.2.1, packed with new features and essential fixes.
blog.kotzilla.io

Kapshot
Kapshot is a simple Kotlin compiler plugin for capturing source code text from closure blocks and declarations.
github.com

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