Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #425

 
 

ISSUE #425

22th of September 2024
 



Announcements


Kotlin Unit Testing Survey
JetBrains is running a survey to understand how they can enhance your experience with writing unit tests. If you are interested, consider helping them out.
surveys.jetbrains.com



Articles


How to start with DynamoDB in your Ktor application (Part 1)
First article in the series by Matthias Schenk on how to start with DynamoDB in your Ktor application.
poisonedyouth.github.io

Metaspace in JVM Builds
Jason Person wrote about optimizing JVM build performance by managing Metaspace, advising not to set -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize in JDK 17+ builds like Gradle, and recommending profiling to prevent out-of-memory errors in large codebases.
www.jasonpearson.dev


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Android


Choosing the Right Logging Library for Android App
Choosing the right logging library for Android required balancing Android compatibility, modularity, multiple logging destinations, and runtime configurability. Andrzej Zabost reviews a few of the available ones.
brightinventions.pl

Exploring Lifecycle-Aware Service and FirebaseMessagingService on Android
Jaewoong Eum explores how to manage the lifecycle of Android services, particularly FirebaseMessagingService, using LifecycleService and Kotlin coroutines to prevent memory leaks and ensure efficient task management.
proandroiddev.com

Bottom Sheets that... just work
Alex Styl introduces Composables Core, an unstyled, fully customizable Jetpack Compose library for building flexible bottom sheets that overcome limitations in Material Compose sheets.
composables.com



Videos


The Future of Source Code with Stephan Janssen
Duncan McGregor had a conversation with Stephan Janssen. Some of the topics include comparing LLMs to junior developers, AI’s evolving capabilities, context caching with Claude, and the future role of source code.
www.youtube.com

TypeAlias Show #2 - Multi-cursor Magic • Kotlin Roadmap Updates • Navigation without Arrow Keys
Dave Leeds explores the latest Kotlin roadmap, a demo on using multiple text cursors for IDE edits, and tips for navigating without arrow keys, plus a live chat with fellow Kotlin enthusiasts.
www.youtube.com



Libraries


Kotlin Server Scripts
Kotlin Server Scripts let you run kotlin scripts in response to server requests, without setting up a complete project.
github.com

Signum
Kotlin Multiplatform Crypto/PKI Library and ASN1 Parser + Encoder.
github.com

CameraK App
A camera library for Compose Multiplatform.
github.com

kspoon
kspoon is a Kotlin Multiplatform library for parsing HTML into Kotlin objects.
github.com

Rin
Enhance Compose Multiplatform with rememberRetained{}, inspired by Circuit.
github.com

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