ISSUE #230

27th of December 2020

Hi folks! Cheers from Son Soc, where we come to participate in our last trail run of 2020. This will be our latest email of 2020, but next year we will be back with more. Take care, here is our selection of links for this weekend.

Announcements

Faire Сase Study: Kotlin Backend for a Disruptive SMB Marketplace
In this new Case Study from Kotlin, Faire explains have they applied Kotlin for the Backend with roughly 45 engineers actively committing code.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Baseline sentiment analysis with Naive Bayes in Kotlin
Maria Khalusova wrote this fantastic article about how she implemented a simple sentiment classifier for tweets in Kotlin with Naive Bayes.
www.mariakhalusova.com

Improvements to inline classes in Kotlin 1.4.30
Inline classes are a Kotlin language feature introduced in Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin 1.4 brought a few improvements to the inline classes, explained in this article.
msfjarvis.dev

Cooking Tasty code in Kotlin
In this article, Shreyas Patil shows some basic recipes we can use to make our Kotlin code taste better.
medium.com

Android

Android Room Hidden Costs
In this article, Vasya Drobushkov speaks about some of the hidden costs of Room, and how we can avoid them.
krossovochkin.com

Jetpack Compose and GraphQL, a very merry combination!
John O'Reilly thinks that Jetpack and GraphQL are being a very nice combination in Android, and he explains his reasons in this article.
johnoreilly.dev

Using CoroutineContext to repeat failed HTTP request
A common scenario in Android applications is the need to repeat a request when something goes wrong. See how coroutines can come here to the rescue.
proandroiddev.com

Videos

Kotlin: Using KTX - MAD Skills
On this episode of Kotlin for MAD SKills, Florina will show us how to use Android KTX and peek under the hood to see how they were made.
www.youtube.com

Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS Developers
In this talk, Dinorah Tovar checks some tricks inside the incredible world of Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS.
www.youtube.com

Conferences

Kotlin devroom at FOSDEM
Our friends at FOSDEM want to remind you that you can still send a paper proposal for their conference in February. Participate in one of the biggest free conferences (as in free beer and free software) in Europe.
fosdem.org

Libraries

EasyPermissions-ktx
EasyPermissions-ktx is the Kotlin version of the Google library EasyPermissions.
github.com

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