ISSUE #268

19th of September 2021

Announcements

The Actual Number of Kotlin Developers, or Who Our Active Users Are
JetBrains has been counting the amount of Kotlin users and developers. They present the results in this blog post.
blog.jetbrains.com

CocoaPods Support in the Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Plugin for AppCode
The KMP plugin for App Code provides now CocoaPods support. Read the entire announcement at this link.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin 2021 Premier Online Event
Next month there will be a Kotlin Premier event, with updates from the Kotlin team and news about the whole Kotlin ecosystem.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin libraries authors research
JetBrains is trying to improve the experience with Kotlin library development. They have prepared this survey, where you can help them by answering some questions.
surveys.jetbrains.com

Articles

Comparing Kotlin and Go implementations of the Monkey language
Mario Arias wrote an implementation of Monkey, a language created by Thorsten Ball as part of his books Writing An Interpreter in Go and Writing A Compiler in Go, and compared it with the Kotlin version.
medium.com

Kotlin Multiplatform For Android and the Web - Part 5 The Summary
Last article by Aleksander Jaworski on KMP for Android and the web.
akjaw.com

Mocking Matchers API
New article by Vasya Drobushkov discussing a problem he found recently after working with mocks.
krossovochkin.com

Job and children awaiting in Kotlin coroutines
In this chapter from the Kotlin Coroutines book, everything you wanted to know about jobs and their children.
kt.academy

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Android

Don't let ViewModel knew about framework level dependencies
Shreyas Patil discusses some good practices to deal better with ViewModel.
blog.shreyaspatil.dev

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

Podcast

Teaching Coroutines
In this chapter of Talking Kotlin Mohit Sarveiya, Google Developer Expert in Kotlin and Android, talks about everything related to coroutines.
talkingkotlin.com

Libraries

Reflekt
Reflekt is a compile-time reflection library that leverages the flows of the standard reflection approach and can find classes, objects (singleton classes) or functions by some conditions in compile-time.
github.com

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