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

Sponsored

Bug, feedback & crash reporting for mobile apps
Stop wasting hours trying to debug issues without the proper context. Shake SDK offers actionable data and insights with each report that help you debug 50x faster. Sign up and invite your whole team to collaborate for free!
www.shakebugs.com

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

Contribute

We rely on sponsors to offer quality content every Sunday. If you would like to submit a sponsored link contact us.

If you want to submit an article for the next issue, please do also drop us an email.

Thanks to JetBrains for their support!

Copyright © 2021 Kotlin Weekly, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website.

Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #268

ISSUE #268

Older messages

Kotlin Weekly #267

Kotlin Weekly #266

Kotlin Weekly #265

Kotlin Weekly #264

Kotlin Weekly #263

You Might Also Like

Import AI 399: 1,000 samples to make a reasoning model; DeepSeek proliferation; Apple's self-driving car simulator

Defining Your Paranoia Level: Navigating Change Without the Overkill

5 ways AI can help with taxes 🪄

Recurring Automations + Secret Updates

The First Provable AI-Proof Game: Introducing Butterfly Wings 4

GCP Newsletter #437

Charted | The 1%'s Share of U.S. Wealth Over Time (1989-2024) 💰

The Great Social Media Diaspora & Tapestry is here

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1689 [Medium]

📧 Stop Conflating CQRS and MediatR