ISSUE #262

8th of August 2021

Announcements

Ten Years of Kotlin!
On July 19, 2011, at the JVM Language Summit, JetBrains announced Kotlin – a new statically typed programming language for the JVM. JetBrains has prepared some resources to remind us about this journey.
blog.jetbrains.com

Compose Multiplatform goes Alpha, unifying Desktop, Web, and Android UIs
Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web are being promoted to Alpha, another step in the unified theory of UI development with Kotlin. Check out the full announcement here.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Traits for testing in Kotlin
Marcin Moskala has seen the traits pattern frequently while developing tests with Kotlin. He wrote an article describing how he uses it.
kt.academy

Using different Kotlin versions in a KMM project
A common problem arising for KMM developers is that they may be facing different Kotlin versions. John O'Reilly wrote an article with a possible approach to solve it.
johnoreilly.dev

A Vocabulary of Jetpack Compose Terms
Pamela Hill wrote an article with some of the most commonly used Compose terms, to help understand everything coming up lately.
www.pamelaahill.com

Safe Call and Elvis Operator usage in Kotlin
Abhas Kumar has written an article about usage of safe call and Elvis operator with Kotlin.
abhasthekotliner.medium.com

Adding Auth0 Authentication to a Ktor HTTP API
Learn how to integrate Auth0 with a Ktor application using JWT Authentication.
auth0.com

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tldr.tech

Android

Coroutines (Part II) – Job, SupervisorJob, Launch and Async
Second article in the series by Victor Brandalise, this time exploring Job, SupervisorJob, Launch and Async.
victorbrandalise.com

Loading images for Jetpack Compose using Glide, Coil, and Fresco
Jaewoong Eum keeps showing us how to apply the latest frameworks and techniques on Android development.
proandroiddev.com

3 Modern Ways To Tackle Assisted Injection for ViewModels in Android
If you’re using Dagger as a dependency injection framework, chances are you’ve faced a situation where you couldn’t provide all dependencies. Check this overview article by Stephen Vinouze.
betterprogramming.pub

Videos

Data Structures in Kotlin - Stack
In this episode from DryCode you will learn how to implement a Stack data structure using Kotlin. Kotlin.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Gong
Gong is an Android template project from Xmartlabs, written in Kotlin, and focused on providing a solid app architecture.
github.com

Kotlin Clean Architecture Backend
Interesting sample of a Kotlin backend written based on the Clean Architecture principles.
github.com

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