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ISSUE #264

22tnd of August 2021
 



Announcements


Try Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile in AppCode for Free!
JetBrains recently announced a new plugin for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile development that helps you develop applications for Android and iOS. And now they are giving away four free months of AppCode to test it!
blog.jetbrains.com

Join Our Community Localization Project for the Kotlin Blog
JetBrains has launched a project for community localization of the Kotlin blog in Crowdin, a cloud-based localization management platform. Check it out if you are interested in localising the Kotlin blog.
blog.jetbrains.com



Articles


Coroutines (Part III) – Structured Concurrency and Cancellation
Third article on Coroutines by Victor Brandalise, this time focusing on concurrency and cancellation.
victorbrandalise.com

Why using Kotlin Coroutines?
In this new excerpt from Effective Kotlin, check out some arguments on why you should be using Coroutines for your async operations.
kt.academy

Build and Secure an API with Spring Boot and Kotlin
See how easy it is to bootstrap a CRUD API with Spring Initializr, build it with Spring Boot and Kotlin, and secure it with Auth0.
auth0.com

Simple string localization in Kotlin Multiplatform
One of the less commented aspects in KMP is localisation. Yev Kanivets wrote an article about how to approach it properly.
yev-kanivets.medium.com
 


Sponsored

World's First Jetpack Compose Chat SDK!
Stream's new Jetpack Compose team has worked hard for the past few months to build the first Compose Chat SDK out there! Please try it out and let us know what you think.
getstream.io



Android


Safe delay in Android Views: goodbye Handlers, Hello Coroutines!
This article analyses how we can take advantage of the coroutines and lifecycle libraries to replace the Handler().postDelay() method to safely trigger an action after a specified amount of time.
juliensalvi.medium.com

Kotlin Multiplatform For Android and the Web - Part 1
Aleksander Jaworski has started a new series of articles about Kotlin Multiplatform. In the first one, he focuses on the Ktor server
akjaw.com



Videos


Build multiplatform projects in Kotlin and learn more about server-driven UI
Check out the latest Kotlin Mumbai Meetup, with sessions by Adit Lal from Gojek and John O'Reilly, GDE for Kotlin.
www.youtube.com



Podcast


10 Years of Kotlin Special
Check out this special chapter of Talking Kotlin dedicated to the 10 Years of Kotlin, and featuring guests talking about their journeys with the language.
talkingkotlin.com



Libraries


Klimatic
Klimatic is an android app built using Kotlin. It tries to showcase all the latest technologies used in Android.
github.com

Compose LazyList reorder
A Jetpack Compose (Desktop) modifier enabling reordering in a LazyList.
github.com

kotlin-null-defaults
A Kotlin compiler plugin that allows Java callers to pass in null for default parameters by automatically checking for nulls and substituting the default values.
github.com

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Kotlin Weekly #263

Sunday, August 15, 2021

ISSUE #263 15th of August 2021 Announcements Kotlin 1.5.30-RC available The 1.5.30 release is approaching. You can now test the RC with the updated opt-in requirements, Kotlin/JS IR backend in Beta,

Kotlin Weekly #262

Sunday, August 8, 2021

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.

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Sunday, August 1, 2021

ISSUE #261 1st of August 2021 Hi Kotliners. Jetpack Compose 1.0.0 is out there, and we have already seen a boom in content just after a few days. Expect more Compose in the near future - and if you

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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

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ISSUE #259 18th of July 2021 Articles Useful Kotlin Idioms You Should Know This blog post highlights some good places to start on the path to learning idiomatic Kotlin. blog.jetbrains.com Solving

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