Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #429

 
 

ISSUE #429

20th of October 2024
 



Announcements


Compose Multiplatform 1.7.0 Released
Compose Multiplatform 1.7.0 introduces type-safe navigation, Material3 adaptive components, iOS performance improvements, desktop drag-and-drop, and better resource handling across platforms.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Exciting News + Special Announcement!
Summary of some of the Kotlin news from the last months, including the ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE YEAR: you can now buy a fluffy Kodee on the merchandising website.
blog.jetbrains.com



Articles


Why Migrate from Dagger2/Hilt to Koin?
In Koin’s first webinar, Arnaud Guiliani discussed migrating from Dagger2/Hilt to Koin for Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), emphasizing Koin’s simplicity, native KMP support, and the benefits of a gradual migration.
blog.kotzilla.io

Kotlin Under the Hood: Exploring Constructors and Init Blocks
This blog explores how Kotlin's primary and secondary constructors, along with init blocks, function under the hood, showing how initialization and constructor delegation work in Kotlin, with insights into the corresponding Java bytecode.
medium.com

Interface Delegation in Kotlin
This article explains Kotlin's interface delegation, which allows a class to delegate the implementation of an interface to another object, enhancing code reusability, flexibility, and separation of concerns while promoting composition over inheritance.
poisonedyouth.github.io

Piloting Kotlin Multiplatform is Easy. Scaling is Hard
Kevin Galligan highlights the challenges native mobile teams face when scaling Kotlin Multiplatform and suggests that scaling requires integrating KMP into feature development rather than relying on a library publishing model, while avoiding workflow friction by not forcing radical changes to team structures.
touchlab.co

Viewing the logs inside the application with LogKMPanion
Sergei Mikhailovskii introduces LogKMPanion, a Kotlin Multiplatform library designed to simplify viewing and managing application logs across Android and iOS, addressing challenges faced by QA engineers in accessing logs and providing a user-friendly UI for session-based network logs and more.
medium.com


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Android


Why r8 preferred BMW over Audi?
In this article, the author explores the impact of R8's fullMode on APK decompilation, revealing that while BMW is retained in the optimized output, Audi is removed due to its similar structure, highlighting the importance of understanding how aggressive optimizations can affect code behavior and visibility in Android applications.
theapache64.github.io



Videos


Replacing Handlebars - kotlinx.html for HTMX
In this episode, Duncan McGregor performs a spike refactoring by replacing Handlebars templates with Kotlin's kotlinx.html DSL to improve our Gilded Rose codebase, using approval tests and encountering unexpected browser test failures.
www.youtube.com



Libraries


Jentry
Jentry is a command line tool to analyze Kotlin/Java public information inside the jar/aar files.
github.com

Compose Native Tray Library
ComposeTray is a Kotlin library that provides a simple way to create system tray applications with native support for Linux and Windows.
github.com

terpal-sql
Terpal is a Kotlin Multiplatform library that allows you to write SQL queries using interpolated strings in an SQL-injection-safe way.
github.com

missing-annotations-therapist
Kotlin Compiler Plugin that automatically adds missing annotations to your codebase based on configurable criteria.
github.com

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