ISSUE #260

25th of July 2021

Announcements

Preview of Kotlin 1.5.30
Check in this article the preview of Kotlin 1.5.30 with Native Apple Silicon support, improved Kotlin DSL for the CocoaPods Gradle Plugin, and more.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Idiomatic Kotlin: Solving Advent of Code Puzzles, Day 2
Let’s continue learning how to write idiomatic Kotlin code by solving the Advent of Code tasks! In this link, the day 2.
blog.jetbrains.com

Avoid member extensions
New article from the Effective Kotlin series, this time on why should we avoid member extensions.
kt.academy

Kotlin DSL, BuildSrc, Product Flavors, Flavor Icon and more
Mustafa Yigit migrated his Gradle files to Kotlin DSL, and wrote an article discussing the lessons he learned while doing it.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Effective extension function refactoring in Kotlin: companion object use case
Yuri describes in this article how to deal with extension functions that have transformed over time from lightweight additions to code into monsters with domain-coupled logic.
medium.com

Optimizing Your Kotlin Build
Kotlin build times are often slow. Zac Sweers has compiled a list of common issues and what you can or can't do about them.
www.zacsweers.dev

Creating an HTTP API with Ktor and Kotlin
Matthew Casperson has written an article exploring the details of a simple Ktor application exposing an HTTP API.
auth0.com

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Android

Jetpack Compose: Missing piece to the MVI puzzle?
Garima Jain asked herself, is MVI even possible with Jetpack Compose? And she wrote an article on this topic.
medium.com

Videos

Kotlin Value Classes (vs Data Class and Type Alias)
In this video, Natig speaks about Kotlin Value classes which is one of the Kotlin 1.5 features.
www.youtube.com

Podcast

Kotlin at DoorDash
Matt Anger from DoorDash speaks about how they have embraced Kotlin on Android, their server-side backend services, migrating away from their previous monolithic implementation, and going all-in with Kotlin as DoorDash’s language of choice.
talkingkotlin.com

Conferences

Android Realm Code Jam Session with Kotlin
In this hands-on session, Mohit Sharma, Developer Advocate with MongoDB will walk through getting started with Realm & Kotlin.
live.mongodb.com

Libraries

KMP-NativeCoroutines
KMP-NativeCoroutines is a library to use Kotlin Coroutines from Swift code in KMP apps.
github.com

npm-publish
npm-publish (Gradle plugin for NPM package publishing) has just released its version v2.0.4
github.com

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