ISSUE #200

31st of May 2020

Hello Kotliners. This weekend we celebrate our issue number 200. It has been a journey of 1.400 days that we had the pleasure to share with a vibrant community. To all and each of you (readers and contributors alike): thank you for your passion and support. We hope to see you as well in the upcoming 100 issues. And for now, enjoy this Sunday.

Articles

Sharing Dependencies and Gradle Plugins between Kotlin/SpringBoot Services
Topher Lamey wrote about how they handle shared dependencies across SpringBoot/Kotlin/Gradle projects at StackHawk, allowing them to scale services and team members.
www.stackhawk.com

Kotlin nullability: Four easy pieces
Giuseppe Villani explores in this article four caveats about nullability that surprised him when he discovered them the first time.
medium.com

Reactive Spring Boot with Kotlin Coroutines
Kotlin Coroutines make it even easier to write Reactive Spring Boot applications. Todd Ginsberg shows us that there are Coroutines outside the Android realm.
ginsberg<.com

Android

A polished and flexible progress view for Android
In this post, Jaewoong Eum describes how to implement a polished and flexible ProgressView (of course in Kotlin)
medium.com

Fueled Reactive apps with Asynchronous Flow
In this first chapter of the series, Raúl Hernández López shares the background behind his presentation Fueled Reactive apps with Asynchronous Flow”, where he narrates his journey towards a world with Flow
proandroiddev.com

Jetpack Compose ConstraintLayout
Jorge Castillo has written this informative post showing how to work with ConstraintLayout in Compose.
jorgecastillo.dev

Do I need to call suspend functions of Retrofit and Room on a background thread?
Have you ever asked yourself the question of this article? Lukas Lechner has an answer for you.
www.lukaslechner.com

Libraries

Kotlin Poet Version 1.6.0
The version 1.6.0 from Kotlin Poet has been released. Check in this changelog the new goodies that are included.
github.com

Pytorch KotlinDemo
This project is a demo written in Kotlin to show a simple image classification application that uses Android PyTorch API and a trained PyTorch model.
github.com

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