Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #391

 
 

ISSUE #391

28th of January 2024
 



Articles


Ktor — First Steps With the Creation of Native Images
Matthias Schenk shares his experience with creating a native image for one of his Ktor applications targeting the JVM platform using GraalVM.
towardsdev.com

Static Code Analysers
Excerpt from a chapter by Nicola Corti in the book Advanced Kotlin about static code analysers.
kt.academy

Boosting Bazel Adoption on Android With Automation
Post showcasing how we can migrate Android apps from Gradle to Bazel.
medium.com

Experimenting with Composable Presenters in Kotlin Multiplatform
Rich Woollcott posted an article looking into Kotlin Multiplatform using Molecule to create Composable Presenters, which are consumed using SKIE.
appmilla.com
 


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Videos


Kotlin Methods vs Functions (Bowling Part 3)
Duncan McGregor discusses in this video how to choose between a method or an extension function.
www.youtube.com

Try-Catch vs. runCatching()
In this video, Dave Leeds covers his assessment of the trade-offs involved when choosing between Try-Catch vs. runCatching().
www.youtube.com



Libraries


YAIoGoL
YAIoGoL is a Yet Another Implementation of Game of Life.
github.com

Version catalog update plugin
This plugin helps to keep the versions in a Gradle version catalog toml file up to date. The version updates are determined by the versions plugin.
github.com

file-size
Mini library by Saket Narayan for representing and converting between file sizes, inspired by kotlin.time.Duration.
github.com

dependency-analysis-gradle-plugin
Gradle Plugin that provides advice for managing dependencies and other applied plugins.
github.com

generative-ai-kmp
Shreyas Patil has forked the generative AI SDK from Google and provided it with KMP capabilities.
github.com

Boosting Bazel Adoption on Android With Automation
The Kotlin for Data Science Team released this week a new and stable version of the KotlinDataFrame library 0.12.1 with Database Exploration support
github.com

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