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ISSUE #229

20th of December 2020
 

Hi folks. Many of you will be already on semi-holidays or taking already time off. We wish you Merry Christmas if you happen to celebrate them. We are only two issues away from NYE, and we can't wait either from a better 2021. Enjoy our selection of links.



Announcements


Expedia Group Case Study: Bootiful APIs With GraphQL and Kotlin
Another case study courtesy from Expedia and JetBrains on how to use Kotlin and GraphQL in production.
blog.jetbrains.com

Lets-Plot, in Kotlin
Lets-Plot is an open-source plotting library for statistical data written entirely in Kotlin. Maria Khalusova wrote a blog post analyzing it.
blog.jetbrains.com

Announcing gRPC Kotlin 1.0 for Android and Cloud
gRPC Kotlin 1.0 for Android and Cloud is finally out. Check out this blog post to see more of its features.
developers.googleblog.com



Articles


More productivity with Kotlin
Florina Muntenescu explains in this article why and how Kotlin improves our productivity.
medium.com

Why Are Kotlin Synthetics Deprecated and What Are the Alternatives?
Comparing which paradigm will be better to use: data binding vs. view binding vs. Kotlin Synthetics vs. findViewById
medium.com



Android


KTX: Graphics
KTX is a series of Kotlin extension functions for Android that first appeared in February 2018. Mark Allison explores it in this article.
blog.stylingandroid.com

Simplifying APIs with coroutines and Flow
Manuel Vivo explores in this article how to create your own coroutine adapters and how they work under the hood.
manuelvivo.dev

When LiveData and Kotlin don’t play well together
Danny Preussler has found some scenarios where LiveData and Kotlin do not seem to fit especially well, and he decided to write an article about it.
medium.com



Videos


Fueled Reactive apps with Asynchronous Flow and StateFlow to sync with the UI
This video is the session from Raul Hernandez Lopez at the Droidcon on Fueling Reactive apps.
www.droidcon.com
 


Jobs

Senior Software Engineer at Squarespace
Squarespace is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Android to join our small, collaborative team responsible for the end-to-end development of our Android applications and the long-term vision of Squarespace on mobile devices.
grnh.se



Podcast


Kotlin in Space
In this chapter, Sergey and Max chat about their use of Kotlin in Space. They cover the frameworks that they use, some of which were born out of Space.
talkingkotlin.com



Libraries


PatternFly Fritz2
PatternFly Fritz2 is a Kotlin implementation of PatternFly based on fritz2 targeting Kotlin/JS.
github.com

KVision 3.18.0
KVision, the Object-oriented web framework for Kotlin/JS, has released the version 3.18.0.
github.com

Kable
Kotlin Asynchronous Bluetooth Low Energy provides a simple Coroutines-powered API for interacting with Bluetooth Low Energy devices.
github.com

Realm Kotlin
Realm Kotlin has now KMM support. Check out the library and their new release.
github.com

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