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ISSUE #227

6th of December 2020
 

Good morning from Saigon Kotliners! We are on quarantine for one more week, so we are having time for reading and focus on other endeavours that we appreciate. We hope the following link selection is useful for you.



Announcements


Apache Kafka® Event Streaming Platform For Kotlin Developers
JetBrains has started its series of webinars. The first one will be about an overview of Kafka, the event streaming platform.
info.jetbrains.com

Jetpack Compose for Desktop: Milestone 2 Released
Milestone 2 of Compose for Desktop Milestone has been published. Check out this post to see everything that includes.
blog.jetbrains.com

The future of Kotlin Android Extensions
Do you use Kotlin Android Extensions? They are being deprecated, and you have until September 2021 to remove them from your codebase.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Android Developer Story: Dianping - using Kotlin to craft a better product
Google has another Use Case study about how real-world companies use Kotlin, this time with Dianping.
www.youtube.com



Articles


Publishing server-side Kotlin applications: Ktor on Heroku
Sebastian Aigner wrote an article on Wrote a little tutorial on how to deploy Kotlin + Ktor apps on Heroku. Take a look if you want to see how you can get your server-side app in front of an audience
dev.to

Extracting an Extension Function from a Call Chain
IntelliJ can't yet extract extension functions from call chains, but we can combine individual refactorings to get there safely.
oneeyedmen.com

Kotlin Christmas Calendar
An article a day leading up to Christmas about various Kotlin related topics. 24 days and 24 articles this month.
kotlin.christmas

Backend for mobile engineers with Kotlin and Ktor
Another article explaining how we can use ktor to develop a Backend for Mobile Engineers.
medium.com
 


Sponsored

Out Now: New Branch of Kotlin-Based Chat SDK with Updated Kotlin Chat Tutorial
The 4.x branch of our Kotlin-based chat SDK is out of beta. The SDK is split into three parts: a low-level client, an offline support library, and UX/View components. This SDK has fully-integrated offline support, extensive test coverage, and support for all of the Stream Chat features with which you’re familiar. This new version includes link previews, commands, reactions, attachments, message editing, typing indicators, read states, and threads. The offline support library also exposes easy-to-use LiveData objects, so it’s now easier than ever to build and customize your own UI if you choose to do so
getstream.io



Android


KTX: Views
KTX is a series of Kotlin extension functions for Android that first appeared in February 2018. Mark Allison wrote an article about them, and what he finds useful
blog.stylingandroid.com



Videos


Kotlin Coroutines Fundamentals
In this link you can access the entire Coroutines course of Lukas Lechner.
www.youtube.com



Conferences


Kotlin devroom at FOSDEM
The Kotlin devroom track has been announced for the upcoming FOSDEM. Fosdem is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized and free event.
fosdem.org



Libraries


Flower
Library for Android to manage database caching and networking easily. It helps to handle scenarios of API requests (success/error/loading) together with database caching
github.com

KotlinFixture
A tool to generate well-defined, but essentially random, input following the idea of constrained non-determinism.
github.com

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