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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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Kotlin Weekly #229

Sunday, December 20, 2020

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

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Sunday, December 13, 2020

ISSUE #228 13th of December 2020 Hello dear folks. We only have three more Sundays to go in this 2020 to forget. But if a pandemic gives us lemons we shall make lemonade. Enjoy our selected articles

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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

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ISSUE #226 28th of November 2020 Hi folks! We are sending this email from Vietnam, where we are going to stay for the foreseeable future. Remember to wash your hands, wear a mask and learn more Kotlin

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ISSUE #225 22th of November 2020 Hi Kotliners. This week we got to know that Andrey Breslav is stepping down as the Project Lead for Kotlin. Thank you Andrey for making of Kotlin our daily language.

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