ISSUE #273

24th of October 2021

Announcements

Introducing the Kotlin Mascot!
Kotlin has been around for ten years, but there was always one big thing that we felt was missing – a mascot. You can actually help to name it.
blog.jetbrains.com

Take Part in the Kotlin Event
The Kotlin 2021 Premier Online Event has started, and during the next two weeks there will be tons of content. Read more about it in this article.
blog.jetbrains.com

Android Dev Summit 2021
The agenda for the Android Dev Summit is now live, including a lot of Kotlin content.
developer.android.com

Articles

Constructing coroutine scope
This article from the book Kotlin Coroutines explains how to construct and build coroutines scopes.
kt.academy

Consider using groupingBy instead of groupBy
There are some peculiarities when using groupingBy instead of groupBy. Learn more about it in this article.
kt.academy

Architecting mobile apps with Kotlin Multiplatform
Rafa García has written an article about how should we architecture apps with Kotlin Multiplatform.
www.rafagarcia.dev

Kotlin and FaaS, an impossible union?
Nicolas Fränkel writes in this article whether using Kotlin OpenFaas together is a good idea or not.
blog.frankel.ch

Sponsored

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blog.sentry.io

Android

ViewModels using Compose: MutableStateFlows or MutableStates?
Fabio Collini discusses in his new article whether we should use MutableStateFlows or MutableStateFlows in our ViewModels when using Compose.
proandroiddev.com

Migrating your Android Project to Kotlin Multiplatform
Isuru Rajapakse has written an article summarizing his experience migrating an Android project to KMP.
medium.com

Announcing the Android Basics in Kotlin Course
Google has released a new Kotlin Course for Android basics, free for anybody to take.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Videos

Kotlin & WebAssembly: A First Look
In this video, Join Sebastian Aigner and Svyatoslav Kuzmich take a look at WebAssembly.
www.youtube.com

Jobs

Senior Android / Kotlin Developer (100% Remote)
We are hiring multiple Senior Android / Kotlin Developers. Work from anywhere for the world's leading brands and get supported to do more of what you love. Join the most energizing community for remote developers.
x-team.com

Podcast

From Java to Kotlin
Nat Pryce and Duncan McGregor speak about the new Java to Kotlin A Refactoring Guidebook, and their experience of helping companies and independent developers to migrate to Kotlin.
talkingkotlin.com

Firefox for Android with Sebastian Kaspari
Sebastian Kaspari speaks about his experience working at Firefox for Android, how to build a mobile browser and some of the open-source projects in the Mozilla ecosystem.
thebakery.dev

Libraries

Realm Kotlin 0.6.0
The version 0.6.0 of Realm has been published. This time with Kotlin/JVM support, fully designed with multiplatform in mind.
medium.com

KFactory
KFactory is a library that will help you to create factories for your synthetic data in Kotlin.
github.com

MapNeat
MapNeat is a JVM library written in Kotlin that provides an easy-to-use DSL for transforming JSON to JSON, XML to JSON, POJO to JSON in a declarative way.
github.com

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