ISSUE #402

14th of April 2024

Announcements

Kotlin Multiplatform State of the Art Survey 2024
Help to shape and understand the Kotlin Multiplatform Ecosystem! It takes 4 minutes to fill out this survey. The results will be shared with the community, and you have the chance of winning an Amazon voucher!
www.snappmobile.io

Koin 3.5.4 Release Note
Koin has announced release of Koin 3.5.4, which introduces a suite of enhancements, documentation updates, and critical bug fixes aimed at optimizing dependency injection in Kotlin.
blog.cloud-inject.io

Articles

Leveraging Key-Value Observing (KVO) in Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) for iOS
This article explores utilizing Key-Value Observing (KVO), a fundamental mechanism for monitoring property changes in Cocoa, within a KMP iOS source set.
proandroiddev.com

Kotlin Coroutine mechanisms: runBlocking v. launch
Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez brings us a new article introducing us to Coroutine behavior through playful examples.
hinchman-amanda.medium.com

Plotting Financial Data in Kotlin with Kandy
Andrei Kislitsyn is showcasing in this article a simple financial data workflow – download, analysis, and visualizations – using Kotlin for Data Analysis tools.
medium.com

Using Kotlin Multiplatform with KMMBridge and SKIE to publish a native Swift SDK
The team at Touchlab used Kotlin Multiplatform with SKIE and KMMBridge from Touchlab to publish a native Swift SDK. They took some engineering notes and released them in this article.
www.powersync.com

Kotlin Flows - The Ultimate Guide
This article by Daniel Ciocirlan focuses on another crucial concept in Kotlin Coroutines: Kotlin flows.
blog.rockthejvm.com

Sponsored

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www.powersync.com

Videos

[Livestream] ICPC World Finals: Kotlin Heroes Blind Coding Challenge
JetBrains has announced a livestream directly from the ICPC World Finals: Kotlin Heroes Blind Coding Challenge. Keep the date - 16th of April - and join this event with some top worldwide competitive programmers.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin Coroutines and Loom
After some questions from a viewer, Duncan McGregor started wondering about the performance when calling business logic that used Kotlin coroutines from the non-suspend handlers, and how to fix it.
www.youtube.com

Conferences

Roboto Conference: where tech meets beauty
Join us on June 6-7 for the Roboto Conference in Verona, Italy. Eighteen speakers will explore cutting-edge topics about Kotlin and Android development. It’s a unique opportunity to meet some of the most influential figures in the industry, all in one of Italy's most beautiful cities.
www.robotoconference.com

Libraries

KMP-hierarchy
Gradle Plugin to investigate KMP project's hierarchy.
github.com

Wonderous Compose
Wonderous Compose is a port of Wonderous in Compose Multiplatform.
github.com

Grid
A Kotlin Multiplatform app that plays with circles and grids.
github.com

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