ISSUE #251

23th of May 2021

Announcements

KotlinDL 0.2: JB deep learning library
The version 0.2 of KotlinDL is now available, with new layers, a special Kotlin-idiomatic DSL for image preprocessing, a few types of Datasets, a great Model Zoo with support for the ResNet and MobileNet model families, and many more changes are now receiving a final polish.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin Coroutines 1.5 is out
Kotlin Coroutines 1.5.0 is out! This article explores the new things coming - GlobalScope marked as delicate, refined channels API... - and a migration guide.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin/Native Memory Management Update
The original Kotlin/Native memory management approach was very easy to implement, but it created a host of problems for developers trying to share their Kotlin code between different platforms. See what has changed in this article by Roman Elizarov.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Migrating from LiveData to Kotlin’s Flow
A guide to migrating from LiveData to Flow - and as suspected, Flow is the recommended choice for Kotlin devs.
medium.com

Hide internal members of Kotlin Module from JVM
If you’re developing a library or SDK using Kotlin and targeting JVM or make it interoperable with Java, you might need to hide internal Kotlin members. Read how in this article.
medium.com

How I added the Kotlin Interactive Shell to Homebrew
Salvatore Testa wrote an article about adding the Kotlin Interactive Shell to Homebrew.
saltesta.com

Kotlin Multiplatform at HMRC
HMRC (UK’s tax, payments, and customs authority) uses KMP, and George Herbert wrote an article showcasing how they do it.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Writing Kotlin Parcelize compiler plugin for iOS
This article describes the process Arkadii Ivanov follow to write a Kotlin plugin.
medium.com

Why we need iOS developers on board with Kotlin/Multiplatform
There have been rivers of literature about the relationship between iOS developers and KMP. This article explores why we need to onboard them on the KMP realm.
medium.com

From Java to Kotlin in 20 minutes
Jean-Michel Fayard has written an article with some of the first insights when moving from Java to Kotlin
dev.to

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Android

What's new for Android developers at Google I/O
Google I/O is over, and there are a few announcements for Kotlin developers. Most notably, Compose will have a 1.0 in July, but there is more. Check it out in this article.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Videos

Ktor for Networking in Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile projects
In this new episode of Kotlin by JetBrains Ekaterina creates a real cross-platform mobile application with KMM. It will load data from the network with the Ktor and display the result in the device screen, and the business logic will be written only once in the shared KMM module
www.youtube.com

State of Kotlin on Android
Hear the latest updates on what you need to know about the state of Kotlin on Android in May 2021 with Jeffrey van Gogh and Wojtek Kaliciński
www.youtube.com

Kotlin Munich May Meetup
Video of the May session at the KTUG Meetup, with sessions on Kotlin testing and what is new in Kotlin 1.5.0
www.youtube.com

Libraries

skrape{it}
skrape{it} is a Kotlin-based HTML/XML testing and web scraping library that can be used seamlessly in Spring-Boot, Ktor, Android or other Kotlin-JVM projects.
github.com

doistx-normalize
doistx-normalize is a library that adds support for normalization as described by Unicode Standard Annex #15 - Unicode Normalization Forms.
github.com

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