ISSUE #250

16th of May 2021

Announcements

Kotlin 1.5 Online Event
The Kotlin 1.5 event has been announced, where the JB team will answer your questions about the recent updates and anything else Kotlin-related. Make sure to register here.
pages.jetbrains.com

Articles

Use the data modifier to represent a bundle of data
Chapter from the book Effective Kotlin, exploring how to use the data modifier.
kt.academy

Three-framework problem with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
Yev Kanivets explores some of the problems that can arise by using KMP from the iOS side of things.
medium.com

Awesome Kotlin
A curated list of awesome Kotlin related stuff inspired by awesome-java
github.com

Unit Testing Delays, Errors & Retries with Kotlin Flows
In this post, Mohit Sarveiya shares with us how to test delays, retries, and errors with Flows.
codingwithmohit.com

Kotlin sealed class API (for Java consumption)
Kotlin sealed class has a few peculiarities to keep in mind when interacting with Java, and this article covers them.
jabbar.hashnode.dev

Kotlin and Compose for Desktop - The Balloon Years
Ewald Horn has written an article about his experience playing with Compose on the desktop.
www.nofuss.co.za

Android

Static analysis tools for Android
This post takes a look into the most popular static code analysis tools that you can use to implement and enforce custom rules in your codebase.
coyarzun.medium.com

Extending Material Theme in Jetpack Compose
This post explores how to adapt, customize and extend Compose Material Theme in order to fulfill app UI requirements and get rid of material limitations.
blog.xmartlabs.com

Supporting different screen sizes on Android with Jetpack Compose
Rahul Sainai wrote about the pitfalls of using hard-coded dimensions and a way to support different screen sizes.
proandroiddev.com

Podcast

Learning Android with Compose
In this episode, Bryan Lidberg speaks about his Android Development journey, in which he started with Compose.
anchor.fm

Contributing to the Kotlin Compiler
Jeffrey Van Gogh and Mads Ager from Google about the Kotlin compiler, covering everything from its basic structure and the infrastructure for building Android apps to new symbol processing approaches with KSP.
talkingkotlin.com

Libraries

kotlinx-datetime 0.2.0 Is Out
This article explores kotlinx-datetime 0.2.0 — a new version of the multiplatform library for working with dates and times, which was released along with Kotlin 1.5.0
blog.jetbrains.com

Arc Progressbar
ArcProgressbar lets you create Arc progressbar in Android in a simple way.
github.com

KotLink
KotLink is a solution for creating and sharing memorable URL aliases, which takes its inspiration from Google's internal Go-Links system.
github.com

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