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ISSUE #202✊🏿

14th of June 2020
 

Hello Kotliners. The last week we have seen an arise in protests in the US, but also worldwide, claiming for social justice and equality. From our humble project, we want to stand together with all our sisters and brothers protesting. We believe in equality and in a fair world, and part of our mission with the Kotlin Weekly is to help the Kotlin community grow and prosper. Please, check out the BLM website.



Announcements


The path towards Spring Boot native applications
Spring GraalVM Native 0.7.0 with improved Kotlin support has just been released. If you are interested in running your Spring Boot application written in Kotlin with a smaller footprint and instant startup, check this out.
spring.io

Unwrapping the Android 11 Beta, plus more developer updates
Google announced the Android 11 Beta this week. There is a significant number of goodies included for Kotlin developers (improvements in Android Studio, Kotlin and JetPack, Kotlin Coroutines and more. Make sure you check out this article, and stay tuned for more articles in the upcoming weeks.
android-developers.googleblog.com



Articles


Experimenting with Ktor
David Rawson has been experimenting with ktor, and he wrote an article to share his learnings with us.
medium.com

Kotlin and Exceptions
What are Kotlin Exceptions and how should you use them? Roman Elizarov has written a new article exploring this topic.
medium.com

Understanding Kotlin scope functions
If you have been developing in Kotlin for some time, chances are you have used scope functions already. However, have you used all of them and how can you leverage their power effectively? Check out this article to learn more about it.
blog.usejournal.com

MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 2 (2 of 3)
If you have been developing in Kotlin for some time, chances are you have used scope functions already. However, have you used all of them and how can you leverage their power effectively? Check out this article to learn more abotu
badootech.badoo.com
 


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Android


Android MVI with Kotlin Coroutines & Flow
Stavro Xhardha uses Kotlin Coroutines & the Kotlin Flow API to implement an MVI architecture, exploring the new StateFlow API.
quickbirdstudios.com

Coroutines with Lifecycle and LiveData
This tutorial goes through the process of building an Android app that uses coroutines with LiveData objects and lifecycle-aware CoroutineScopes.
www.raywenderlich.com



Libraries


AutoDsl for Kotlin
AutoDsl is a Kotlin library that auto-generates DSLs (Domain Specific Language) for your Kotlin projects using annotations.
github.com

Punkt 2.0
The version 2.0 of Punkt (live music coding library for Kotlin), has been released. Now with effects support.
github.com

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