ISSUE #274

31st of October 2021

Hi folks! This week we had the Android Dev Summit with a lot of Droid-ish content that you might be interested in. Besides that, it seems that Compose for Desktop is finally taking off! Check out our selection of articles for this week.

Announcements

Compose Multiplatform Goes Beta
Compose Multiplatform has reached Beta. This brings Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web another step closer to their stable release later this year. Check out more about the highlights in this post.
blog.jetbrains.com

KMM Beta Roadmap Highlights
In this video, Ekaterina Petrova discusses all the important changes that you can expect with KMM Beta, which will be available in Spring 2022.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Ensuring control over npm dependencies in Kotlin/JS projects
In this post by Sebastian Aigner (and after a recent security report), you can learn how to lock packages you depend on to a certain version.
blog.jetbrains.com

From TDD to PBT via Kotest
Property Based Testing is now supported by Kotest. In this article the author proposes a simple kata and converts a test suite from regular Unit Tests to Property Based Tests.
garthgilmour.medium.com

Testing Kotlin Coroutines
Check in this chapter from the book Kotlin Coroutines what are some of the most effective mechanisms to test your coroutines.
kt.academy

Comparison in Java and Kotlin
We have different ways to perform a comparison in Java and Kotlin. Alexander Levin summarises them here.
ale.vin

Consider Arrays with primitives for performance-critical processing
If performance is an issue, arrays with primitive might be your choice in Kotlin. Check out this article to learn why.
kt.academy

Hazelcast + Kibana: best buddies for exploring and visualizing data
This article explores the use of Kotlin for building data pipelines, showcasing Hazelcast and Kibana. Super interesting!
hazelcast.com

Sponsored

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blog.sentry.io

Android

Android Dev Summit 2021
Find out what’s new in Android Development, including updates for Jetpack Compose, Android 12, privacy, and more from Android Dev Summit ’21.
www.youtube.com

Compose Destinations: a simpler, safer way to navigate in Jetpack Compose
This article introduces Compose Destinations — a code generating library that tries to improve navigation in this new Jetpack Compose world.
proandroiddev.com

How to Update Realm SDK Database Schema for Android
Mohit Sarma wrote an article to help us update our Realm SDK Database Schema on Android.
medium.com

Videos

Live Programming a Web Crawler
Jakob Löhnertz built a basic, albeit functional, web crawler from scratch in Kotlin.
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

Libraries

Avengers Chat
AvengersChat is a demo application based on modern Android tech stacks and Stream Chat SDK.
github.com

micro-template
A very tiny and simple text templating library for Kotlin.
github.com

PyxlMoose
An open-source pixel art creator for Android.
github.com

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