ISSUE #212

23rd of August 2020

Hi folks! This week Kotlin 1.4.0 was finally released, and we have been checking it out - maybe it has not been as commented as others, but we are particularly happy with the Explicit API mode for library authors - maybe too much work on SDKs from this author. We hope that this gives you good learning material for this week - enjoy this Sunday.

Announcements

Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance
Kotlin 1.4 is finally here. Check in the official announcement of Kotlin what are the most relevant features included in this release.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Kotlin DSL —defining mandatory parameters
Hanan Rofe found some problems when using DSL with mandatory parameters, and he ended up building DSLint to ensure the correctness of DSLs con compile time.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

SSID Connector – Compatibility Wrapper
Mark Allison keeps exploring the SSID connector. This week, he started using sealed classes to allow the compatibility wrappers to protect the consumer from implementation details.
blog.stylingandroid.com

Gradle Kotlin DSL— Dynamically discover project modules
Pavlos-Petros wanted to discover Gradle modules dynamically instead of statically specifying them, and he came up with a small solution to do it.
medium.com

Lambda expressions in Kotlin
Ferdinand Bada wrote an article explaining some of the peculiarities of the Lambda expressions in Kotlin
effbada.hashnode.dev

Testing time-based code with Joda Time
This article narrates how to test time-based properties with Joda Time - including hints on how to write micro DSL!
kotlintesting.com

Videos

KUG Meetup Munich August 2020
This week there the Munich KUG had an online meetup with Florina Muntenescu, Jossi Wolf and Enrique López-Mañas where they spoke about managing async tasks in Kotlin, LiveData to Flow migration and what's new in Kotlin 1.4.0
www.youtube.com

Libraries

kotlin-csv
Kotlin-csv is a pure Kotlin CSV Reader/Writer
www.kotlinresources.com

MVFlow
MVFlow is a simple Android MVI architecture using Kotlin flows
pedroql.github.io

Ktor 1.4.0 now available!
ktor 1.4.0 is available and compatible with Kotlin 1.4, nice to see the library jumping up together with Kotlin
blog.jetbrains.com

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