ISSUE #267

12th of September 2021

Announcements

Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0
Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), the new Android tool for building lightweight compiler plugins in Kotlin, is now stable! KSP offers similar functionality to the Kotlin Annotation Processing Tool (KAPT), however it’s up to 2x faster, offers direct access to Kotlin language constructs, and offers support for multiplatform targets.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Articles

Sample the World of KMM
To find the best way to properly develop KMM, it can really help to look at how other projects have used it. Ekaterina Petrova looks at the KMM sample projects that are available.
blog.jetbrains.com

Idiomatic Kotlin: Solving Advent of Code Puzzles, Binary Representation of Numbers
Svetlana Isakova solves in this new article of the Advent of code the problem of Binary Boarding.
blog.jetbrains.com

Consider a primary constructor with named optional arguments
Primary constructors are very convenient, but in most cases, it is actually a very good practice to build objects using them. Read why we should consider them.
kt.academy

Coroutines built-in support vs library
When talking about coroutines, it's common to refer to them as a single concept. They're instead composed of two components: built-in support provided by the Kotlin language, and the Kotlin Coroutines library. Learn more about them in this article.
kt.academy

Thinking functionally in Kotlin
Functional programming is difficult to fathom for most application developers. Functional programming in a nutshell is applying arguments to functions. This article explains how to think in Kotlin in terms of FP.
blog.kotlin-academy.com

Build Function Chains Using Composition in Kotlin
Have you heard about Function Chaining? In this article the author focuses on how to use functions to alter the nature of an object and change it, and how we can chain functions together to apply their effects on an object in one go with a composite pattern.
siddroid.com

Kotlin Constructor - Abhas Kumar
This article gives a brief overview of how to use constructors in Kotlin.
abhas.tech

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www.shakebugs.com

Android

Android 12 Beta 5 update, official release is next!
Android 12 is getting closer, being now the Beta 5 available. Be ready to start adapting your apps.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Testing Hybrid Jetpack Compose Apps
How can we write tests for a hybrid app with Compose? Annyce Davis wrote an article describing her own approach.
adavis.info

The new way of storing data in Android — Jetpack DataStore
In this article, Gábor Marosfalvi demonstrates the opportunities of how to store data in your Android application, especially with Jetpack DataStore.
medium.com

Navigating with Animations in Jetpack Compose
Kaustubh Patange has developed navigator-compose, and in this article explains how to implement it for Android navigation.
kaustubhpatange.medium.com

Videos

Kotlin Type Hints in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio
IntelliJ can nicely display type hints for Kotlin variables such that one can stop the guessing (or hovering) game to figure out what type a variable is of.
www.youtube.com

Jobs

Open role for Senior Android Engineer @ Forza Football
Join us to make the world of football a better place and available for everyone! Together we’ll build the number one football platform on Android. Get challenged by modern tools and frameworks while contributing with your technical expertise and coordinating to shape the team’s vision for the future. Discover more details in our role description!
forzafootball.teamtailor.com

Libraries

Doodle
Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework for the Web. Doodle is written entirely in Kotlin and so are its apps.
github.com

LivePlugin
LivePlugin is an IntelliJ plugin for writing IntelliJ plugins at runtime. So meta.
github.com

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