ISSUE #198

17th of May 2020

Hi Kotliners! Remember to stay healthy in the current times, and take care of you and your family. This selection of links for the upcoming issue aims to help ameliorating your quarantine and bright up your day. Enjoy them.

Announcements

Kotlin Heroes 4: the Next Round is Almost Here
Registration for Kotlin Heroes #4 has already open. Book on your calendar the 29th of May, and get ready for this year challenge.
jb.gg

First Look at Kotlin 1.4-M2: Standard Library Improvements
The next Kotlin preview 1.4-M2 is just around the corner. See in this preliminary post some of the goodies that are coming.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Understanding Kotlin Coroutines with this mental model
Lukas LEchner has written a new post where he tries to conceptualise the notion of coroutines, and help us understand them.
www.lukaslechner.com

Using Koin in a Kotlin Multiplatform Project
New article from John O'Reilly showcasing how you can use the newest version of Koin in a KMP project
johnoreilly.dev

Pragmatic Koin crash course: my two cents
Koin is maybe the best well known CI library in Kotlin. Check in this article an introduction on how to get it ready
www.rockandnull.com

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store.raywenderlich.com

Android

Adam: a second birth to Android’s ddmlib
Adam is a a kotlin-based replacement for developer-to-android-device interaction. Read in this article what you can do with it.
t.co

Handling network HTTP response of success data and failure for your Android project using Sandwich.
In this article, you will learn how you can use the library Sandwich to handle HTTP requests in your Android project.
proandroiddev.com

Podcast

Oolong
Hadi speaks in this new chapter with Michael Pardo about the MVU pattern and his library Oolong, that facilitates MVU implementation.
talkingkotlin.com

Libraries

Smartype
Smartype is a code generation tool that allows you to get the most out of the time you spend organizing and defining the structure of your data.
github.com

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