ISSUE #427

6th of October 2024

Articles

Telltale: Automating Experimentation in Gradle Builds
Iñaki Villar introduces the latest iteration of Telltale, a framework designed to automate experimentation in Gradle builds.
dev.to

Structured Concurrency: coroutineScope
Beatrice Kinya wrote about using structured concurrency in Kotlin coroutines to manage concurrent tasks efficiently, demonstrating how coroutineScope and async enable parallel execution without blocking threads.
kinya.medium.com

ACAB: Fire the (code style) cop in your head
ony Robalik passionately critiques enforced automated code style formatters, arguing that they cause more friction than benefit, especially in complex Kotlin projects.
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Android

Setting Up Logback Programmatically in Android
Andrzej Zabost wrote about configuring Logback programmatically in Android apps, detailing how to send logs from SLF4J to both Logcat and Firebase Crashlytics without using XML.
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Videos

Spring Boot AWS S3 Bucket Storage
This video teaches how to connect a Spring Boot app with AWS S3, perform basic S3 operations, and write integration tests using Testcontainers and LocalStack.
www.youtube.com

Abolishing Kotlin Context Receivers
In this video, Duncan McGregor navigates the tedious process of refactoring Kotlin's deprecated context receivers into a more explicit but less elegant context parameters system, all while dealing with a lack of migration tools and recurring IntelliJ issues.
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Applying the Factory Method and Abstract Factory Patterns in Kotlin
Dave Leeds demonstrates how to use the Factory Method and Abstract Factory patterns to make object creation more flexible.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Voyant
An extension library for voyager and Navigation Compose to use native iOS navigation from compose mutltiplatform.
github.com

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

Kmplate
Template to easily create new pre-configured Kotlin Multiplatform projects
github.com

Compose Unstyled
Unstyled, fully accessible components for Jetpack Compose & Compose Multiplatform that you can customize to your heart's content.
composeunstyled.com

KNotify
KNotify is a Kotlin library that sends native notifications across different operating systems.
github.com

jsonpath4k
jsonpath4k is a Kotlin Multiplatform Library for using Json Paths as specified in RFC9535.
github.com

KColor
A multiplatform library for sharing color between Android and iOS.
github.com

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