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ISSUE #270

3rd of October 2021
 



Announcements


KotlinDL 0.3 Is Out With ONNX Integration, Object Detection API
KotlinDL, the deep learning library from JetBrains, has released its version 0.3.0 with a bunch of new things. Check out the official announcement and read more about it.
blog.jetbrains.com

kotlinx.serialization 1.3 Released
A new version of the Kotlin serialization library – 1.3.0 – is now available following the release of Kotlin 1.5.30. It mainly focuses on broadening the JSON serialization capabilities. Read here the most noticeable changes.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin 1.6.0-M1
And more releases this week. Kotlin 1.6.0-M1 has been uploaded as a pre-release on GitHub. You can check its changelog and see some of the features that might be incorporated into the final Kotlin release.
github.com



Articles


Kotlin-Multiplatform Shared Test Resources
Article by Victoria Gonda on how they verify code regardless of the platform at Square.
developer.squareup.com

Kotlin at Ten. Interview with JetBrains’ Roman Elizarov
Interview with Roman Elizarov on the 10th anniversary of Kotlin about its past, present and future. Don't miss this.
www.infoq.com

All About Opt-In Annotations
The opt-in mechanism in Kotlin allows you to mark APIs that should be used carefully – or perhaps not at all. This new article by Marton Braun looks at everything you need to know about opt-in APIs.
zsmb.co

Consider associating elements to a map
It is not uncommon to have a bigger set of elements, in which we need to find elements by some key many times. Read in this article reasons why we should consider associating elements to a map.
kt.academy
 


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Android


Speed up your build: Non-transitive R files
Paul Blundell wrote recently this post explaining how to implement and build your app with non-transitive R files.
blog.blundellapps.co.uk



Videos


Ryan Kay: Teaching Yourself Programming Effectively
Interview of Coding in Flow with Ryan Kay, where he talks about KMP, Compose, Kotlin and more.
www.youtube.com

Kotlin Tips: Collections
In this episode of Kotlin Tips Kate Petrova shows 3 tips that will help you work with Kotlin Collections.
www.youtube.com



Podcast


Talking Compose in Production with Jossi Wolf
Jossi Wolf has been doing a lot of Compose recently, and he shares with us in this chapter of Talking with Apples the lessons he learned about using it on Production.
anchor.fm




Libraries



Contact Store
Contact Store is a modern contacts Android API library, written fully in Kotlin.
github.com

Square Logcat
Square Logcat is a tiny Kotlin API for cheap logging on top of Android's normal Log class.
github.com

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ISSUE #269 26th of September 2021 Announcements Kotlin scripting survey JetBrains is trying to improve the experience while scripting with Kotlin. They have prepared this survey, where you can help

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