ISSUE #406

12th of May 2024

Hello Kotliners! The KotlinConf is around the corner, will you be attending? Feel free to reach out if you want to meet for a coffee or to share your projects with us. We will be bringing stickers. Happy coding, and enjoy our selection of links for this week.

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

1.6.10-rc01 in GitHub
The version of Compose v1.6.10-rc01 has been uploaded to GitHub. One small step for humankind, one big step for Compose users.
github.com

Articles

Readability of Optimized Kotlin Code
Romain Guy discusses how to write optimized Kotlin code that is still readable for users of the API.
www.romainguy.dev

Publishing Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries With Sonatype Central
Kwabena Bio Berko summarizes how to publish KMP libraries in Sonatype in 2024.
proandroiddev.com

Preparing for K2
K2 is around the corner. If you haven't prepared for it, Zac Sweers wrote this post covering some areas.
www.zacsweers.dev

How to publish a Kotlin Multiplatform iOS app on App Store with GitHub Actions
A new article in the series by Marco Gomiero on KMP, DevOps and GitHub Actions.
www.marcogomiero.com

How many threads your network client uses?
Marcin Moskala has been comparing a few network clients to come up with some guidance on which one we should choose for a better performance.
kt.academy

Type Erasure in Kotlin: Simplifying the Complex
Maya Mohite discusses type erasure in Kotlin, a concept that removes some type information at runtime to ensure compatibility with Java.
medium.com

Let Kotlin do the code for you — Part III: Mockito, Mockk, and Code Generation
André Oriani wrote a series of articles on code generation. In this article, learn how to use Bytebuddy to create a simple version of a mock library like Mockito.
proandroiddev.com

Android

Putting Koin To Work in Android
Kerry Bisset implemented dependency injection using Koin with WorkManager, and shared his experience in this article.
blog.stackademic.com

Libraries

pytorch-lite-multiplatform
A Kotlin multi-platform wrapper around the PyTorch Lite libraries on Android and iOS.
github.com

Compose Menu (Dropdown)
An unstyled Menu (Dropdown) Compose Multiplatform component with keyboard navigation and animation support.
github.com

SparkButtonCompose
A SparkButtonCompose is used to create a sparking effect like Twitter's like button.
github.com

Kotest
Kotest is a flexible and comprehensive testing tool for Kotlin with multiplatform support.
github.com

compass
Kotlin Multiplatform library location toolkit for geocoding and geolocation
github.com

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