ISSUE #272

17th of October 2021

Announcements

Try the New Cross-Language Change Signature Refactoring With the KMM Plugin for AppCode
JetBrains keep working on their KMP Plugin for AppCode (remember that until recently AppCode could refactor code, whereas Xcode couldn't. Check out the new corss-language change signature refactoring.
blog.jetbrains.com

Multik 0.1 Is Out
Introducing Multik 0.1 – a new, enhanced version of our multidimensional array library! In this release, folks at JetBrains have added a bunch of features.
blog.jetbrains.com

Compose for Wear OS now in Developer Preview!
Compose for Wear OS is in Developer Preview after a number of successful alpha releases. Check out everything included in this post.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Articles

Kotlin Symbol Processors
Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) is a library built at Google which provides an API to build lightweight compiler plugins. Read more about it in this article
blog.jetbrains.com

Room & Kotlin Symbol Processing
We have more KSP, in this case Room meeting Kotlin Symbol Processing. See how Room can benefit from a relationship with KSP.
medium.com

Avoid unnecessary object creation
In this new article from the book Effective Kotlin, see reasons why we should avoid unnecessary object creation (which goes a bit further than the obvious ones)
kt.academy

What’s New in kotlinx.serialization 1.3
Check out what's new in the release of kotlinx.serialization 1.3, summarized by Nav Singh.
proandroiddev.com

Scoping functions in Kotlin Coroutines
Learn how can we scope function using Kotlin Coroutines in this article by Marcin Moskala.
kt.academy

Modularizing a Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Project
This article shows an example modularization strategy for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile projects and touches on some issues related to modularization and the iOS platform.
akjaw.com

Building a type safe bundleOf
You may be aware of the bundleOf utility provided by the core-ktx artifact, however you may not be aware of the fact that it’s not type-safe. Aidan Mcwilliams explores here some possibilities to make it safe.
proandroiddev.com

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docs.sentry.io

Android

Get Started with Android Authentication Using Kotlin
Joey de Villa has written an article showcasing how to implement login, logout, and user profiles in Android apps using Kotlin and Auth0.
github.com

Videos

Ranges and Progressions in Kotlin
This Video Tutorial by Bhavna Thacker covers Ranges and Progressions in Kotlin - among others, demostrates the usage of .. , downTo and until.
www.youtube.com

Jobs

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x-team.com

Libraries

KON v1.1.0
KON (Lightweight DSL to build fluid JSON trees) has released its version 1.1.0
github.com

encrypted-datastore
encrypted-datastore is a tiny library with extensions to encrypt DataStore using Tink
github.com

callback-ktx
A lightweight Android library that wraps Android's callback-based APIs into suspending extension functions which allow writing them in a sequential way within coroutines or observe multiple callbacks through Kotlin flow.
github.com

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