Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #399

 
 

ISSUE #399

24th of March 2024
 



Announcements


Ktor 2024 Roadmap DI Update
Since the Ktor Roadmap for 2024 was published there have been a lot of questions regarding Dependency Injection. This post clarifies some of the intentions.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin 2.0.0-Beta5
Kotlin 2.0.0-Beta5 has been uploaded as a pre-release on GitHub. Check out the goodies that have been included.
github.com



Articles


Seven recipes to understand flows and asynchrony in Kotlin
Tom Colvin dives into asynchronous code and flows in Kotlin.
proandroiddev.com

Performance Impact Analysis of Gradle 8.7 in Android Projects
Iñaki Villar analyses Gradle 8.7 and its performance impact in Android projects.
dev.to

Gradle's leaky abstractions: Declarative(ish) shell, imperative core: Implementing a safe(ish) global configuration DSL
Gradle is very aware they have a complexity problem. Tony Robalik rants a bit about it, and proposes how to solve it.
dev.to


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Android


Build a Real-Time Zoom Clone with Jetpack Compose
This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to building a real-time Zoom clone application for Android, utilizing Stream’s Video SDK alongside Jetpack Compose.
getstream.io

Capturing composable to a bitmap without losing a state
Shreyas Patil wrote an article about using Capturable to capture a Composable to a bitmap without losing state.
blog.shreyaspatil.dev

Playing Simon Says with Gemma-2b and MediaPipe
Darryl Bayliss created a test application to see how new Google LLMs and tools work on a device, and wrote a blog post sharing his findings.
www.darrylbayliss.net



Videos


Type Projections... and why they work!
Dave Leeds shines a light on type projections in his new video.
www.youtube.com

AI Assistant vs Property-based Tests
In this new video, Duncan McGregor has been using AI assistant for test generation to see how it works for him.
www.youtube.com

Dependency Injection In Compose Multiplatform App | Using Koin in Kotlin Multiplatform App
This video teaches about Dependency Injection in Compose Multiplatform App in Android Studio.
www.youtube.com



Podcast


Roborazzi with Takahiro Menju
Head of Podcasting Nico Corti speaks with Tahakiro Menju about his library Roborazzi and more.
thebakery.dev



Conferences


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



Libraries


OpenTelemetry Collector distributions
This repository assembles OpenTelemetry Collector distributions, such as the core distribution, or contrib. It may contain non-official distributions, focused on specific use-cases, such as the load-balancer.
github.com

Boggle Multiplatform
A simple Boggle game App using Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform for Android, iOS, Desktop and Web.
github.com

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