ISSUE #374

1st of October 2023

Announcements

Touchlab Open Source Updates - Sep 2023
Touchlab has pushed some major open-source updates over the past few weeks that will have an impact on how teams use KMP, and on KMP adoption overall. Here are the highlights.
touchlab.co

Studio Bot expands to 170+ international markets!
Studio Bot is now available in 170+ countries. Check out if yours is supported (sorry Europeans), and start leveraging it to develop your Android apps.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Articles

Functional Error Handling in Kotlin, Part 3: The Raise DSL
In the last chapter of the series on Functional Programming, Daniel Ciocîrlan writes about Raise DSL, a new way to handle typed errors using Kotlin contexts.
blog.rockthejvm.com

Lottie With Jetpack Compose
Maria Luiza wrote in this article about how to use Jetpack Compose with Lottie to develop nice UIs.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Kotlin just got Virtual Threads
Kotlin with a JDK 21 backend has support for Virtual Treads. Check out in this article how they work.
void2unit.onrender.com

Kotin Flow as an Enterprise Integration tool
This article showcases how to use Kotlin Flow as an ally when you’re building enterprise integrations.
gabfssilva.github.io

Kotlin’s Supercharged Flow API — Combining and Merging Flows for Reactive Programming
Nirbhay Perwani dives into Combine, Merge, Zip and Transform Functions to allow an efficient Flow Management.
proandroiddev.com

Async / Await Coroutines in Swift from Kotlin Multiplatform using KMP-NativeCoroutines
Aleksander Jaworski wrote a follow-up article on his session at the Droidcon Berlin, this time speaking about Coroutines in Swift using KMP.
akjaw.com

Kotlin — Shallow vs Deep Copy Explained
In this article, Ilyas Ipek explains the difference between deep and shallow copying in Kotlin and why it’s crucial to understand it when copying data classes and lists.
blog.protein.tech

Android

Migrating to Jetpack Compose — an interop love story [part 2]
Second article in the series by Simona Milanović about migrating an app to Jetpack Compose.
medium.com

Videos

How to Use Kotlin's Timing API
Kotlin's Timing API is stable as of Kotlin 1.9, and it offers some great ways to both measure and specify time. In this video, Dave Leeds shows us an overview of how this API works.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Notify
Notify is a simple note application that is built with Modern Android development tools.
github.com

Elide
Elide is a cloud-first polyglot runtime for developing fast web applications
github.com

AnyPass
AnyPass is a Compose multiplatform app for your all-in-one password management.
github.com

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