ISSUE #424

15th of September 2024

Announcements

Kotlin Multiplatform Contest
The Kotlin Foundation has launched the Kotlin Multiplatform Contest for students and recent graduates. Showcase your coding skills by building a cross-platform project using Kotlin Multiplatform and win a trip to KotlinConf 2025.
kotlinconf.com

Beyond The Success Of Kotlin / The Documentary by EngX
This documentary explores the journey of Kotlin's creation, detailing its rise as a Java alternative and the challenges faced in becoming a major programming language in the industry.
www.youtube.com

Articles

Preserving Unobfuscated Class Names in SLF4J Logs
This post explains how integrating SLF4J with Logstash in an Android project caused obfuscated class names in logs, solved by using custom ProGuard rules to preserve class names for better traceability.
brightinventions.pl

Spring Boot with AWS S3, S3Client and Kotlin
A step-by-step guide on configuring a Spring Boot Kotlin app to integrate with AWS S3 using S3Client, covering setup, bucket management, and basic object operations.
codersee.com

Enhancing iOS UI Previews: Swift UI Packages & Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
This article discusses enhancing the iOS development experience in Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) by creating modular Swift UI components in separate Swift packages, improving SwiftUI Previews, reusability, and project structure.
medium.com

Streamlining Cross-Platform Development with Kotlin Multiplatform
Zac Siegel talks with the founder of Foxbox on Kotlin Multiplatform about the current state of the industry and why Kotlin Multiplatform has a bright future.
www.zsiegel.com

How to Add a Splash Screen to a Compose Multiplatform App
This article by Pamela Hill guides developers through adding static and animated splash screens to Android and iOS applications using Compose Multiplatform, offering platform-specific steps for integrating branding visuals.
www.pamelaahill.com

Sponsored

Powerful Kotlin Coroutines Workshop
Three days of practical exercises covering asynchronous programming in Kotlin using coroutines. Build-in support for coroutines and deep dive into kotlinx.coroutines library. Coroutines under the hood with Marcin Moskala.
kt.academy

Libraries

KMP App Icon Generator Plugin
KMPAppIconGeneratorPlugin is a plugin by Qamar Safadi that helps you change your Android and iOS app icon from one line command.
github.com

kotlin-inject-anvil
Extensions for the kotlin-inject dependency injection framework.
github.com

Cardiologist
Library to build job schedules with kotlinx-datetime and kotlinx-coroutines.
github.com

Something to avoid
This project showcases some of the common mistakes in Kotlin programming and showcase alternate approaches to avoid them.
github.com

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