ISSUE #245

11th of April 2021

Hi folks. If you did not have any ideas of what to do today, we come here with some articles that can help you to improve your Kotlin knowledge. Enjoy.

Announcements

Kotlin Plugin 2021.1 Released
The Kotlin Plugin 2021.1 has been released, with improved IDE performance and better support for refactorings. Check the entire announcement in this post.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin Kernel for Jupyter Notebook, v0.9.0
A new update of the Kotlin kernel for Jupyter Notebook primarily targeting library authors is out, enabling them to easily integrate Kotlin libraries with Jupyter notebooks.
blog.jetbrains.com

How Do You Use Stack Overflow? The Kotlin Community Survey
JetBrains has opened a Survey to understand how Kotlin developers use Stack Overflow. Let's help find it out.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

A short story of randomness
First article in the series of randomness applied to Kotlin by Enrique López-Mañas
medium.com

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile — what’s all the fuss?
This article gives a conceptual overview of KMM.
ian-alexander.medium.com

Noisy Code - With Kotlin Scopes
Are scopes making your code more readable? One could argue that scopes make your code more noisy, and Chetan Gupta argues about it in this article.
proandroiddev.com

Structuring a Ktor project
Marco Gomiera has written an article structuring a ktor project.
www.marcogomiero.com

An Interface for Multiplatform Networking
You can do Kotlin multiplatform networking with or without ktor. Ben Asher wrote an article about networking in KMP.
benasher.co

Jobs

Android SDK Developer at Capital One (Virginia, USA)
We’re looking for Android developers to help us build cutting-edge SDKs with many millions of users. We use 100% Kotlin, Coroutines and Flow. We love open-source, learning new things and sharing our knowledge with the wider Android community. We are investing in modularization, incremental builds, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform & MVI. Come work with an amazing team, including a Google Developer Expert (GDE). We offer a generous relocation package. :-) You need to be able to work in Virginia, USA without immigration sponsorship.
www.capitalonecareers.com

Android

A safer way to collect flows from Android UIs
Manuel Vivo wrote an article on how to use Flow to avoid wasting resources and how can we do flow collection in the UI layer.
medium.com

Let your delegates auto-nullify references
This article explains how to auto-clear memory references with Kotlin’s delegated properties to avoid memory leaks in your Android app.
medium.com

Videos

Talking Kotlin: MVIKotlin and Decompose with Arkadii Ivanov from Bumble
Interview with Arkadii Ivanov about the Model-View-Intent architecture pattern, how Decompose helps write better declarative multiplatform user interfaces with Kotlin and more
www.youtube.com

Jobs

Does your organization take Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile seriously? We do, join us!
We're solving some interesting problems for a growing list of great partners so we're expanding the team again! The ideal candidate has some iOS experience, but we know most Android devs need to learn these skills, and we’re the best place to learn them. We were remote even before the pandemic, however, the work is fairly collaborative so we have a strong preference for neighboring time zones.
go.touchlab.co

Libraries

Vanilla
A validation library with distinct separation of pre- and post-validation models, focused on validator composability.
github.com

Jobs

YNAB Is Hiring a Humbly Confident Senior Android Developer
We build You Need A Budget (YNAB), software that genuinely changes people's lives. We are a forgiving and friendly place to work that runs on integrity, fairness, and respect. And we've always been 100% remote. If you're ready for a positive change, we have some big plans for our Android app!
youneedabudget.com

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