ISSUE #194

19th of April 2020

Hello Kotliners. Here comes our selection of articles for the upcoming week. We hope that you are able to learn one or two new things this weekend. Enjoy.

Announcements

Kotlin, meet gRPC: a new open-source project for modern apps
Google has open-sourced gRPC Kotlin for the JVM, allowing you to use gRPC with your Kotlin projects.
cloud.google.com

Articles

Simple Multiplatform RPC with Kotlin Serialization
Jake Wharton has published an article about a situation he faced, and how he ended up using Kotlin serialization to achieve a simple multiplatform RPC.
jakewharton.com

Important starters of Kotlin
Kyrmyzy Kaliyeva wrote about her journey learning Kotlin, and what it was important for her to get immersed in the language.
medium.com

Kotlin Multiplatform running on macOS
John O'Reilly keeps experimenting with KMP. In this article, he speaks about running KMP on macOS
johnoreilly.dev

Sponsored

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Android

Kotlin Coroutines – Use Cases on Android
Lukas Lechner created an open-source project for learning Coroutines. It includes lots of sample Coroutine-based implementations for real-world Android use cases.
www.lukaslechner.com

Podcast

Going Full Kotlin Multiplatform
In this new chapter of Talking Kotlin, Hadi speaks with Jesse and Egor from CashApp (Square) to discuss how they decided to port OKio and OKHttp completely to Kotlin Multiplatform back when Kotlin wasn't even officially supported by Google
talkingkotlin.com

Coroutines in Kotlin with Filip Babić
Filip Babić speaks in this podcast everything you wanted to know about Coroutines.
www.raywenderlich.com

Libraries

Punkt, live coding music library/environment for Kotlin
Punkt is a live coding music library/environment for Kotlin that allows you to synthesise music writing in Kotlin. Check out their video samples, they are fantastic
github.com

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