ISSUE #210

11th of October 2020

Hi Kotliners. We have a bunch of announcements from JetBrains this week. Check them out, and have a beautiful start (or end) of the week.

Announcements

kotlinx.serialization 1.0 released
kotlinx.serialization has reached its first stable version, and as such production-ready. Feel free to add finally add it to your production version.
blog.jetbrains.com

New Release Cadence for Kotlin and the IntelliJ Kotlin Plugin
From now on, JetBrains will move towards a date-based release, instead of feature-driven, and it will happen every 6 months. Learn more about JetBrain's announcement here.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin Public Roadmap Through Spring 2021
JetBrains has announced their roadmap through Spring 2021. This document describes the biggest projects the team is working on right now. It has a 6-month time frame and will be updated every 3 months.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Kotlin Coroutines and Synchronisation: An Example of using Mutex
Latest article from Amr Yousef about using Mutex to synchronise access to shared mutable state in concurrent Kotlin applications.
amryousef.me

Tracking side effects at compile time with suspend
Tracking and debugging functions with suspend sometimes might feel like opening the box with the Schrödinger's cat inside. In this article, Jorge Castillo drops some light on the topic.
jorgecastillo.dev

How Kotlin implements lambda under the hood
Lambdas have a translation underneath that differs quite a bit from the surface. Check it out in this article.
medium.com

Moving from React Native to Kotlin Multiplatform
In this article, you can read the reasoning behind the decision of the folks at Wantedly to adopt Kotlin Multiplatform and move away from React Native.
medium.com

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Android

Android Model-View-Intent with Unit Tests
In this article, Adam Hurwitz explains how we can develop Unit Tests in the Android Model-View-Intent architecture, and how we can benefit from a few Kotlin goodies.
proandroiddev.com

Videos

KUG London - October 2020 Online Kotlin Meetup - Kotlin 1.4 Special
This video includes the latest London KUG Meetup - featuring Christina Lee, Leland Richardson, Raul Raja and Sebastian Aigner.
www.youtube.com

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