Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #254

 
 

ISSUE #254

13th of June 2021
 



Announcements


Kotlin 1.5 Event Materials and 10 Questions from the Q&A
The recordings of the 1.5.0 release celebration event are out and available for you on the Kotlin YouTube Channel.
blog.jetbrains.com



Articles


Simple Steps for Improving Your IDE Performance
This blog post continues from the previous one about how to measure IDE performance, giving a few tips to improve the performance.
blog.jetbrains.com

Create Your KMM Library
In this article, Alex Anisimov provides a brief overview of the most popular Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile libraries and shed some light on what motivated the authors to create them.
blog.jetbrains.com

Custom Reactive JSON parsing
Vasya Drobushkov experienced some problems handling JSON, and he decided to write an article about Reactive JSON parsing and how he solved it.
krossovochkin.com

Learning State & Shared Flows with Unit Tests
In this article, Mohit Sarveiya explores features of shared and state flows with unit testing.
codingwithmohit.com

Kotlin Multiplatform: Building a “Fat” iOS Framework for iosArm64 and iosX64
Sam Edwards has been experimenting and building an iOS framework for different architectures. He exposes his results in this article.
handstandsam.com

Prefer class hierarchies to tagged classes
New article on Kotlin Academy with a sample from Effective Kotlin: Prefer class hierarchies to tagged classes
kt.academy

MutableSharedFlow is kind of complicated
Starting with Kotlin Coroutines version 1.5.0, BroadcastChannel and ConflatedBroadcastChannel were marked as ObsoleteCoroutinesApi and developers should now use SharedFlow and StateFlow instead. Read this article to know what to do.
itnext.io



Android


In-depth look at gRPC for Android
This article dives into what you need to know to use gRPC effectively in Android.
victorbrandalise.com

Jetpack Compose: Styles and Themes
Second article by Waseef Akhtar where he explores Styles and Themes using Compose.
www.waseefakhtar.com

Create an application CoroutineScope using Hilt
In this article, Manuel Vivo writes how to create an application-scoped CoroutineScope using Hilt, and how to inject it as a dependency.
medium.com



Podcast


Realm for Kotlin Multiplatform
New episode from Talking Kotlin, this time speaking with Nabil Hachicha and Claus Rørbech from the Realm team about the Realm Kotlin Multiplatform SDK project.
talkingkotlin.com



Libraries


Dagger Track
A Gradle plugin that automatically adds clock tracking for your components and subcomponents.
github.com

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