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ISSUE #234

24th of January 2021
 

Good morning kotliners! It seems that companies are going hard these days with Use Cases of Kotlin and some frameworks. We are happy particularly to see KMP adoption growing. Enjoy your next week, and check out the links we have prepared for you.



Announcements


Results of the First Kotlin Multiplatform Survey
JetBrains has released the result of the first KMP support. If you are interested in the KMP world, it is worth taking a look.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin January 2021 Roadmap
The January 2021 edition of the Kotlin Roadmap is out.
kotlinlang.org

KMP Case Study: Magic Technology
JetBrains has published another Case Study of a company using KMP. In this case, it is the time of the Swedish company Magic Technology.
kotlinlang.org

Twitter increases developer productivity and code reliability with Kotlin
In this link, check out the case study of Twitter and their Android app.
developer.android.com



Articles


Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5
Kotlin 1.5 is tentatively introducing some new goodies on sealed classes. Marton Braun explains exactly what in his new article.
zsmb.co

Using Swift Packages in a Kotlin Multiplatform project
When using Kotlin Multiplatform, the Kotlin/Native compiler produces a framework for iOS/macOS corresponding to the shared code module. John O'Reilly shares possible strategies to link this package to a KMP module
johnoreilly.dev

How to write Hoogle for Kotlin in Scala (and Scala.js)
In Haskell there is a tool called Hoogle which lets you search documentation by function signatures, but this is not available in Kotlin yet. Check how this could be written in Kotlin.
medium.com

The Ferryman problem
This article writes a solution in Kotlin for the Ferryman problem, transporting batches of passengers across the body of water.
www.kalasim.org

Why we use Kotlin Multiplatform and Redux
At dreipol they've started using KMM in combination with Redux-Kotlin to develop iOS and Android Apps. They've recently published a blog post about the architecture they are using.
blog.dreipol.ch



Android


Testing Retrofit converter with Mock Webserver
Daniel Horowitz has been using a combination of Unit tests + MockWebserver in order to fully test Retrofit network integrations.
daniel-horowitz.medium.com

Concise codebase using KTX extensions
Check out in this article how to use Android-KTX library to write more concise code in an Android codebase.
navczydev.medium.com



Podcast


Jetpack Compose Desktop with Sebastian Aigner
Nicola Corti speaks in the new chapter of The Bakery with Sebastian Aigner, Developer Advocate at JetBrains.
thebakery.dev



Libraries


Values4K
Values4K is a lightweight, validatable base Value types - aka Microtypes - aka Tinytypes
github.com

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