ISSUE #397

10th of March 2024

Announcements

Release Kotlin 1.9.23
Kotlin 1.9.23 has been tagged and updated in GitHub. Check out everything that it includes.
github.com

Articles

Sketch, refine, rinse and repeat
Third article in the series by Iury Souza on building an AI Audio Guide. Here he explained how he applied a Sketch and Refine approach to his project.
iurysouza.dev

How to publish your own BoM (Bill of Materials) for Kotlin Multiplatform libraries on Maven Central
BoMs are becoming more popular lately. This article showcases how to publish a Kotlin Multiplatform BoM on Maven Central with GitHub Actions.
vivienmahe.medium.com

Building a macOS screen saver in Kotlin
Magician Marton Braun wrote a very detailed article about how he wrote a custom screen saver for macOS using the powers of Kotlin Multiplatform to target macOS.
zsmb.co

Android

State of Dependency Management in Android Studio
Article by Kartik Arora discussing the current state of the art of dependency management in Android.
proandroiddev.com

Trim, Transcode, Concatenate: Your Guide to Media3 Editing Libraries
This blog post indicates some Media3 APIs recently published for video creation on Android.
medium.com

Videos

Kotlin Tutorial - Kotlin at Light Speed
A jam-packed mini-course that will get you started with Kotlin, by Daniel Ciocirlan
www.youtube.com

Property-based testing with jqwik and Kotlin
Property-based tests are excellent for finding edge-cases. Duncan McGregor applies it with jqwik to his codebase.
www.youtube.com

Variance... without Generics!
Did you know that you can use covariance and contravariance in Kotlin without generics? Dave Leeds explains it in this article.
www.youtube.com

Conferences

Kotlin Workshops - remote & powerful
From March to May you can participate in the three most powerful remote workshops: Kotlin Pro - Kotlin Ceoroutines - Kotlin Mastery. Only the best practices and hands-on training. All based on the most common use cases.
kt.academy

Libraries

Cinematic Journey
Cinematic Journey is an open-source app that demonstrates how to make a production Kotlin Multiplatform app with Compose Multiplatform.
github.com

DroidJobsKMP
DroidJobsKMP is an open-source KMP app that gathers and displays Android jobs.
github.com

krotoDC
krotoDC is a protoc plugin for generating Kotlin data classes and gRPC service/stub from a .proto input.
github.com

Monarch
Monarch is a small, flexible, type-safe, and multiplatform abstraction for feature flags.
github.com

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