ISSUE #220

18th of October 2020

Hello Kotliners! Since we are getting each day more and more content, we have decided to send a few more articles that we usually send, and see what the analytics tell us. We really get a lot of content, and we would like to include more on our mailing list. You know you can always reach out to us with your feedback. But now, enjoy your tea or coffee and our selection of articles.

Articles

Kotlin 1.4 Online Event Recap
Last week we had the Kotlin 1.4 Online Event by JetBrains. In this article, Malvin Sutanto summarizes the most important aspects of it.
medium.com

Nanoservices: The Power of Composition
Check in this article how we can use http4k to create nano-services - which are apparently a thousand times smaller than microservices.
www.http4k.org

Kotlin Functional Interfaces: Function reference and SAM conversion
Kotlin 1.4 provides now a Functional interface that supports SAM conversion, and it is very straightforward to do. Check out this article by Vasya Drobushkov to learn more.
krossovochkin.github.io

Kotlin scope and extension functions. How to not harm your code
Scope functions in Kotlin are powerful tools that can make the code more concise but, like any powerful tool, can also ruin it if not used properly. This article covers the typical scope function issues and gotchas and offers mitigation practices.
proandroiddev.com

Don’t argue with default arguments
In this new article in the series of Kotlin vocabulary, Florina Muntenescu shows us the secrets behind the default articles in Kotlin.
medium.com

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Android

Synchronous communication with the UI using StateFlow
Raúl Hernández López keeps exploring async communication in apps and Flow. In this article, he dives deep into StateFlow to check how we can get rid of callbacks in our codebase.
proandroiddev.com

Learn the steps to build an app that detects crop diseases
In the context of the DevFest, Chet Haase has created an Android app using Kotlin that recognizes information about plants.
developers.googleblog.com

Jobs

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Developer at Touchlab
For the last decade, Touchlab has been at the forefront of mobile product development. Help us to continue to define the future of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM). Touchlab is in search of Mobile Developers with Android/Kotlin experience and some iOS experience. As KMM adoption continues to grow we are looking to work with engineers who want to help shape the KMM platform.
go.touchlab.co

Libraries

Spring Framework 5.3.0-RC2 available now
The second release candidate of Spring Framework 5.3 is now available to the public - remember that Spring already supports Kotlin!
spring.io

What’s next with Koin? — 2.2 & 3.0 releases
Koin 2.2.0 is almost there. Arnaud Giuliani speaks about the features in this upcoming release, as well as the plans for the version 3.0.
medium.com

DiKTat
DiKTat is a strict coding standard for Kotlin and a collection of Kotlin code style rules implemented as AST visitors on the top of KTlint. It can be used for detecting and autofixing code smells in CI/CD process.
github.com

npm-publish
npm-publish (Gradle plugin for NPM package publishing) has just released its version 0.1.1.
gitlab.com

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