Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #449

 
 

ISSUE #449

9th of March 2025
 



Articles


Building & Deploying a simple KMP app — Part 1: App icons
Guide by Robert Munro to setting up app icons for a Kotlin Multiplatform app, including tools, formats, and configuration details.
medium.com

How to Use Swift Packages in Kotlin Multiplatform using Koin
This guide explains how to integrate Swift dependencies like Firebase Analytics using Koin into a Kotlin Multiplatform project when CocoaPods isn't an option.
proandroiddev.com

Getting Started with MockK in Kotlin
In this first article from a series dedicated to MockK and Kotlin, Piotr teaches how to create mocks, define stubbings and utilize matchers.
codersee.com

Kotlin Multiplatform Scalability Challenges on a Large Project
Andrei Beriukhov shares insights on scaling Kotlin Multiplatform in a large project, covering migration challenges, performance tests, and lessons learned.
proandroiddev.com

Kotlin Secrets: 7 Powerful Features Used By Advanced Developers
Nirav Tukadiya highlights seven powerful but underutilized Kotlin features, such as sealed interfaces, value classes, and custom iterators, among others.
proandroiddev.com

Kotlin inline reified to Solve Type Erasure, and a Practical Guide on noinline, crossinline, and More
Ioannis Anifantakis explains how Kotlin’s inline and reified keywords enable type-safe, high-performance code by overcoming type erasure, providing runtime type access without relying on reflection.
proandroiddev.com



Android



Bridging Compose and View: Seamless Interop Communication with CompositionLocal
Julien Salvi explains how to use CompositionLocal in Jetpack Compose to simplify interop communication between Compose and traditional Views by sharing state and triggering events efficiently.
juliensalvi.medium.com



Videos


Fighting the Elephant - Gradle Convention Plugins
Duncan explores Gradle convention plugins to reduce duplication and warnings in a multi-project Kotlin build, tackling plugin conflicts and IntelliJ issues along the way.
www.youtube.com



Podcast


Rapid prototyping with Kotlin
In this episode of Fragmented Podcast, Kaushik Gopal dives into the power of rapid prototyping for Android developers using Kotlin.
fragmentedpodcast.com



Conferences


Call for Papers - Java Forum Stuttgart
Don't get tricked by the name - folks at the Java Forum Stuttgart are also looking for all Kotlin content. If you would like to speak at the event, consider sending them a talk proposal.
www.java-forum-stuttgart.de



Libraries


Tulip
Tulip is a performance testing framework for JVM-based languages, including Java, Kotlin, Scala and Groovy.
github.com

Mines
Stefan Oltmann has developed a FOSS Minesweeper-like game using Kotlin/WASM.
github.com

compose-material-data-table
A Kotlin Multiplatform and Jetpack Compose Multiplatform compliant implementation of the Material 2 Data Table.
github.com

PreferenceState
PreferenceState simplifies persistent state management in Jetpack Compose by eliminating boilerplate code.
github.com

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