ISSUE #246

18th of April 2021

Hi all. Kotlin 1.5 is about to be released, and we are already getting some hints on the goodies we will receive. Enjoy our articles for this week

Announcements

Kotlin 1.5.0-RC Released: Changes to the Standard and Test Libraries
Kotlin 1.5.0-RC is available with all the features planned for 1.5.0 – check out the entire scope of the upcoming release! This post will walk you through the changes to the Kotlin standard and test libraries in 1.5.0-RC.
blog.jetbrains.com

The Kotlin YouTube Channel
Summary of the recently launched Kotlin YouTube channel by JetBrains, and everything it has achieved until now.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Wrapping up Firebase JS Promises with Coroutines & Flow
Etienne Caron has published an article on how he has been flattening fetches and Firebase Promises with the Kotlin Coroutines APIs.
kanawish.com

Migrating your tests to Kotlin
There are a few questions to answer before you start migrating your tests to Kotlin. This article tries to answer them.
paranoidmonoid.github.io

How to Pull Request
Nick Skelton has collected a few guidelines after many years of participating in code reviews, and he is sharing them with us.
medium.com

Functional Domain Modeling in Kotlin - Validation
FP magician Simon Vergauwen writes in this new article about how to improve a domain with validation.
www.47deg.com

Making your KotlinJS Website Mobile-Friendly
There is a difference between making a website and making a website mobile-friendly. Learn how to apply the difference with KotlinJS in this article.
dev.to

Do you want more assertions than one in your tests? Strikt comes to your rescue
Blog post about the usage of Strikt as an assertion library for your tests.
simtop.medium.com

Jobs

Does your organization take Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile seriously? We do, join us!
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.
capitalonecareers.com

Android

Bye XML, it was nice knowing you
This article explores Compose as the new UI paradigm for Android.
medium.com

Videos

KUG London April 2021 Meetup
April Meetup of KUG London with sessions by GDEs Arnaud Giuliani and Roberto Orgiu on Riding the state flow and An Android Dev start to Kotlin MPP
www.youtube.com

KUG Munich April 2021 Meetup
April Meetup of KUG Munich with Daniel Mader (Novatec), Marc Reichelt (Iteratec) and Kathrin Petrova (JetBrains)
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

Podcast

Press with Saket Narayan
Nicola Corti speaks with Saket Narayan about Press, Kotlin Multiplatform, and more.
thebakery.dev

Libraries

diKTat
DiKTat is a strict coding standard for Kotlin and a collection of Kotlin code style rules implemented as AST visitors on the top of Klint.
github.com

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