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ISSUE #253

6th of June 2021
 



Announcements


Compose for Desktop: Milestone 4 Released
Milestone 4, the latest version of Compose for Desktop, is coming packed with features. Check the announcement for a detailed list.
blog.jetbrains.com



Articles


Kotlin Collections vs Sequences in just 5 minutes
Monika Kumar has written an article comparing Kotlin collections and sequences.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Use sealed classes and interfaces to express restricted hierarchies
New article from the Effective Kotlin book on the virtue of using sealed classes.
kt.academy

Kotlin Coroutines and Swift, revisited
Russell Wolf continues with his articles on Coroutines. On this occasion, how Kotlin coroutines work with Swift
dev.to

The Kotlin modifier that shouldn't be there
Most Kotlin developers would agree that a val property is equivalent to a final property in Java. What if Danny Preussler tells you that this is not completely true and sometimes you might need a final val?
proandroiddev.com

Battle-tested template project for Kotlin Multiplatform
Yev Kanivets has published a template to use with Kotlin Multiplatform, and wrote about it in this article.
medium.com

Server-side kotlin using Ktor. An authentication example.
Have you used authentication with Ktor? This article exemplifies an overview of how can we use it.
coroutinedispatcher.com

Why Backend Javaers Should Try Kotlin
Java developers have many reasons to try and maybe jump into Kotlin. Jian-Min Huang explains them in this article.
medium.com
 


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Android


Hilt — A Standard Way to Implement Dependency Injection in Android
Trinh Le explains how Hilt can be used to implement DI in Android, and what are its benefits.
trinhlbk1991.medium.com

Exploring Kotlin initialization with Android custom views
Amanda Hinchman takes a closer look at the relationship between Kotlin and programmatic/dynamic view inflation.
medium.com

Now in Android #40 — Special Google I/O edition
Recap article with all the new goodies that arrived last Google I/O, including obviously a bunch of them for Kotlin.
medium.com



Podcast


refreshVersions with Louis CAD
In this new chapter, Nico Corti speaks with Louis CAD about refreshVersions, a Gradle plugin to help you keep your third-party dependencies up to date.
thebakery.dev



Libraries


CompleteKotlin
Gradle Plugin to enable auto-completion and symbol resolution for all Kotlin/Native platforms.
github.com

Krosstalk
Krosstalk is a pluggable RPC library that allows you to easily create RPC methods using pure Kotlin.
github.com

kached-properties is a caching solution written in Kotlin.
Krosstalk is a pluggable RPC library that allows you to easily create RPC methods using pure Kotlin.
github.com

HiltBinder
HiltBinder is an annotating processing library that automatically generates Dagger Hilt's @Binds methods.
github.com

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