ISSUE #448

2nd of March 2025

Announcements

Apply for Google Summer of Code 2025 and Contribute to the Kotlin Ecosystem
The Kotlin Foundation is once again participating in Google Summer of Code. If you are thinking of participating, check out this announcement.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Strong skipping does not fix Kotlin collections in Jetpack Compose
Watch out when you are using List, Map, Set, etc in Compose. Jorge Castillo explains what strong skipping in Compose does not fix.
newsletter.jorgecastillo.dev

Adding Hot Reload to a Kotlin Multiplatform App
Matt Dyor explains how to add Hot Reload to your Kotlin Multiplatform app with JetBrains’ experimental feature for faster development.
mattdyor.hashnode.dev

Exploration of KMP MVVM and other useful features for iOS developer
François Dabonot has been exploring a good solution for MVVM in iOS KMP, and sharing some of his learnings here.
github.com

Kotlin Tips and Tricks You May Not Know: #7 Goodbye try-catch, Hello runCatching!
Elena van Engelen wrote a new article, this time explaining what runCatching does.
medium.com

Writing code the Kotlin-way
Filip Mistrik wrote about Kotlin idioms that improve code readability, covering Elvis operators, scope functions, and buildList()
technology.complyadvantage.com

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kt.academy

Videos

A full guide to MongoDB with Kotlin coroutines in Ktor
Piotr from Codersee explains in this video how to integrate a Ktor application with the MongoDB database and Kotlin coroutines.
www.youtube.com

Can JetBrains Junie replace manual refactoring?
Duncan McGregor explores AI-powered refactoring in IntelliJ with Juni, JetBrains’ AI agent, for smarter Kotlin transformations.
www.youtube.com

Podcast

Koin creator Arnaud and DI
Arnaud speaks at Kotlin Chronicles with Pedro Santos about Koin, DI, Kotlin and more.
open.spotify.com

Libraries

Atlas
Atlas is a powerful Kotlin Multiplatform SDK that provides a complete ecosystem for building scalable, structured, and maintainable applications across All Platforms for KMP.
github.com

ko-iso
Simple abstractions for working with country and language codes in kotlin.
github.com

Compose Text Editor
An exploration of what it might take to replace `BasicTextField`
github.com

KAnalytics
Kotlin Multiplatform Analytics with a debug viewer.
github.com

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