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ISSUE #276

14th of November 2021
 



Announcements


Seven Highlights from the Kotlin Roadmap Autumn 2021
The Kotlin roadmap does not stop. Here you can read seven selected highlights from the roadmap for the upcoming months.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin for Server-Side Frameworks News: Kotlin Premier Event Presentation Highlights
The Kotlin Online Event is over. Here you can see a recap of two server-side talks: What’s New in Ktor 2.0 and Spring Native with Kotlin.
blog.jetbrains.com

Gradle JVM Toolchain Support in the Kotlin Plugin
Maintaining Gradle build setups to have a reliable and reproducible build process is not always easy. In this blog post, we’ll tell you about one of the Gradle features that Kotlin has recently added support for – JVM toolchain.
blog.jetbrains.com



Articles


Using SwiftUI and Compose to develop App Widgets on iOS and Android
There was an announcement at Android Dev Summit 2021 recently about a new Compose-based Glance API for the development of Android App Widgets. John O'Reilly has written an article comparing the approaches to develop them for Android and iOS.
johnoreilly.dev

The Beginner’s Guide to Kotlin Coroutine Internals
Sonic Wang has written an article exploring some of the Kotlin Coroutine Internals they discovered while migrating from a monolith to a microservices architecture.
doordash.engineering

Cancellation in Kotlin Coroutines
A very important functionality of Kotlin Coroutines is cancellation. This article explores some of the options we have available with Coroutines.
kt.academy

Use inline modifier for functions with parameters of functional types
You might have noticed that nearly all Kotlin stdlib higher-order functions have an inline modifier. Find the explanation in this article from the book Effective Kotlin.
kt.academy
 


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Android


GoDaddy Studio’s Journey with State Management and MVI / Unidirectional Data Flow on Android
Rebecca Ranks and Kamil Slesinski have shared with us how was the journey at GoDaddy to adopt State Management and MVI / Unidirectional Data Flow on Android.
www.godaddy.com

Multi-Theme Screenshot Tests in Jetpack Compose
Fabio Carballo wrote about how to perform multi-theme screenshot tests using Jetpack Compose.
www.fabiocarballo.dev

A Closer Look at Modifier in Jetpack Compose
The Modifiers in Compose have a lot of sugar to be learned. Jintin explores some of it in this article.
proandroiddev.com



Videos


Jetpack Compose vs SwiftUI with Mohit Sarveiya
In this talk, Mohit Sarveiya compares managing state, concurrency, testing, and scaffolding with Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.
www.youtube.com

My Top 10 Missing Kotlin Standard Library Functions & The Power of Extension Functions
Jakob Löhnertz shares in this video his top 10 list of generally applicable, standard library-esque extension functions.
www.youtube.com
 


Jobs

Senior Software Engineer, Android at Capital One
We are a Bank/FinTech that reaches tens of millions of consumers every day. We're mobile first and have 200+ native mobile devs. We use Kotlin and Coroutines to build our app with the latest and greatest from Google. Our app is always in the top 10 Finance apps. We're looking to hire 40+ more devs & managers, FULLY REMOTE, in the USA!
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Podcast


What goes into a Kotlin Release
Marina Shishkina, team lead for the Release and Automation Team in Kotlin, talks about the whole release procedure for new versions of Kotlin.
talkingkotlin.com



Libraries


slack-lints
A collection of custom Android/Kotlin lint checks we use in our Android and Kotlin codebases at Slack.
github.com

AutoValue Kotlin
An AutoValue extension that generates binary and source compatible equivalent Kotlin data classes of AutoValue models.
github.com

Marathon v. 0.7.0 released
Marathon, the cross-platform test runner written for Android and iOS projects, has released the version 0.7.0.
github.com

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