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ISSUE #235

31st of January 2021
 

Good morning folks! Here in Vietnam we are getting ready for the Lunar New Year. Take care during these days, and enjoy our selection of articles.



Announcements


Philips Case Study: Building Connectivity with Kotlin Multiplatform
In this new use case from JetBrains, we analyze the Case Study of Philips, which has been using KMP for a variety of its products.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin by JetBrains
JetBrains has recently started a new YouTube channel, where they will be doing some live streaming, uploading videos talking about Kotlin, and more.
www.youtube.com

Additional resources for Kotlin coroutines and flow
Google has compiled these additional resources to learn even more about Kotlin coroutines and flow, grouped by topic.
developer.android.com



Articles


Using Kotlin as a Shell for GitHub Actions workflows
One interesting thing about GitHub Actions is that you can choose a custom shell per step. In connection with Kotlin's scripting capabilities, this allows you to write shell scripts in Kotlin. See an example in this article.
fwilhe2.github.io

Killing mutations with Kotlin
What are these mutations? Why do we need them? Do we really need to kill them? See how we can and should handle them in Kotlin.
www.codingflower.com

Fully cross-platform Kotlin applications (almost)
JetBrains released its multiplatform implementation of Jetpack Compose, and it is now possible to have a shared UI. Arkadii Ivanov analyses how we can almost have fully cross-platform Kotlin applications.
proandroiddev.com
 


Sponsored

Creator of ProGuard Explains the Effects of Kotlin in Android Apps
Are you an Android developer working in Kotlin? Check out this talk from Eric Lafortune, creator of ProGuard, to understand how you can tune your Kotlin projects to create more compact and more secure software.
guardsquare.com/en/blog



Android


RxJava vs. Coroutines
At Trello Android, they’ve been considering switching from RxJava to coroutines. Dan Lew wrote down a list of pros/cons for each framework.
blog.danlew.net

Modeling UI State on Android
The recommended approach from Google for Android development is holding the UI state in a ViewModel and having the View observe it, but how to model the UI state? Stojan Anastasov tries to answer this question.
lordraydenmk.github.io



Videos


Spring Boot with Kotlin & JUnit 5 Tutorials
This YouTube playlist contains a Spring Boot tutorial with Kotlin & JUnit 5 series, with Peter Sommerhoff
www.youtube.com

gRPC with Kotlin Coroutines with Mohit Sarveiya, Android Worldwide
In this video, Mohit Sarveiya speaks about gRPC, a technology that allows you to call server-side logic from any platform using protocol buffers.
www.youtube.com

KUG Munich Meetup - January 2021
Video of the KUG Munich Meetup on January featuring Coroutines, inline fun, and more.
www.youtube.com



Podcast


JAI Conversational Framework
Hadi speaks in this new chapter with Vitaly about JAI Conversational Framework - a tool that allows you to build a conversational interface to your application.
talkingkotlin.com



Conferences


Kotlin DevRoom
The Kotlin DevRoom agenda for FOSDEM has been announced, with a bunch of nice sessions.
fosdem.org

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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

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