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ISSUE #208

26th of July 2020
 

Hello Kotliners! Here in Europe the COVID situation is getting worst in certain areas, so remember to stay safe and take care. At least there some extra time you can allocate to polish your Kotlin knowledge. Enjoy the next week.



Announcements


Kotlin/Native Memory Management Roadmap
The current automatic memory management implementation in Kotlin/Native has limitations when it comes to concurrency and JetBrains is working on a replacement. Existing code will continue to work and will be supported.
blog.jetbrains.com



Articles


Immutability we can afford
Our approach to programming has significantly changed over the years, and so has done it the immutability concept. Roman Elizarov explores how different languages (including Kotlin) approach it.
medium.com

Kotlin Actors – No Drama Concurrency
Kotlin Actors are part of the Kotlin Coroutines library. Sam Edwards walks you through the reasons why he uses Kotlin Actors to achieve concurrency.
handstandsam.com

Benefits of Kotlin over Java: Backend and Android
The benefits of Kotlin for Android are clear, what about backend? Manish Jain tries to answer the question in this article.
levelup.gitconnected.com

Extension classes
Extension classes are not really a thing in Kotlin, but you can use but inline classes to extend the functionality of a class with minimal overhead at runtime. Check out how in this article
proandroiddev.com

Kotlin’s Noinline & Crossline, once for all
Kotlin, as most of the programming languages, has several reserved keywords. Nicola Corti explores in this article noinline and crossline.
medium.com



Android


Using Google Maps in a Jetpack Compose app
John O'Reilly has been migrating his app to use Jetpack Compose, and there are a few catches that he wants to share with you in this article.
johnoreilly.dev

Android Model-View-Intent with Kotlin Flow
In this article by Adam Hurwitz, he covers replacing LiveData with the new Kotlin StateFlow to use Model-View-Intent along with the Unidirectional Data Flow.
proandroiddev.com



Libraries


AndroidBase
The AndroidBase project provides an Android app project template that includes the base modules/classes (ex: BaseActivity, BaseFragment, BaseViewModel ... etc.), setups for Gradle Kotlin DSL and eliminates boilerplate code.
github.com

Showdown
Showdown is a self-hosted web app and server you can use for planning poker (and that is obviously written in Kotlin
github.com

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