ISSUE #370

3rd of September 2023

Announcements

Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0 Release
As of today, Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0 is available for you to use. Take a look at this page to check the entire announcement.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Refactoring Multi-Module Kotlin Project With Konsist
In this new article by Igor Wojda, learn how to refactor a multi-module Kotlin project helping yourself with Konsist.
proandroiddev.com

Migrating an Android app to iOS with KMP — Part I: First steps and architecture
Igor Escodro shares in this first article of the series his experience migrating an Android app to support iOS using KMP.
proandroiddev.com

Effective Kotlin Item 2: Eliminate critical sections
When multiple threads modify a shared state, it can lead to unexpected results. In this excerpt from Effective Kotlin, you can see this in more detail and learn how to deal with it in Kotlin/JVM.
kt.academy

How to add Kotlin Multiplatform to an Android project that is using Gradle Version Catalog
Learn how to integrate KMP in an Android project using Gradle Version Catalogues.
www.rockandnull.com

KSP in Android projects
Dagger and Hilt KSP processors are now available in the latest release, v2.48. Iñaki Villar compares how the application nowinandroid works when using KSP versus its current kapt configuration.
dev.to

Getting Better with Kotlin — Exploring Advanced Features and Effective Coding Strategies
Nirbhay Pherwani explores some advanced features and techniques we can apply when we are working with Kotlin as a language.
proandroiddev.com

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Android

Compose a Compose Button by composing Composable functions
It might look like a tongue twister, but it is a real article: André Oriani wrote about creating a Compose Button from scratch in a structured way.
proandroiddev.com

How to Provide Accessibility in Your Native Android App with Jetpack Compose
Learn how to manage text size, scaling, focus order, labeling, and content descriptions to ensure your Android app is perfectly accessible in this article by Karol Wrótniak.
www.thedroidsonroids.com

Podcast

Liveplugin with Dmitry Kandalov
In this new episode from The Developers' Bakery, Nico Corti speaks with Dmitry Kandalov, the author of LivePlugin.
thebakery.dev

Libraries

tomlkt
tomlkt is a multiplatform TOML encoder and decoder, powered by kotlinx.serialization.
github.com

cosmo-kmp
Cosmo KMP is a Kotlin Multiplatform App using Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.
github.com

github-workflows-kt
github-workflows-kt is a tool for creating GitHub Actions workflows in a type-safe script, helping you to build robust workflows for your GitHub projects in Kotlin.
github.com

Hexagon
Hexagon is a microservices' toolkit (not a framework) written in Kotlin. Its purpose is to ease the building of server applications.
github.com

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