ISSUE #277

21st of November 2021

Announcements

Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin
JetBrains has announced a webinar, where they will discuss with Geoffrey Challen, Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, how to use Kotlin to teach introductory Computer Science.
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin 1.6.0 Released
Kotlin 1.6.0 is now officially released with Stable exhaustive whens, Kover, and a new memory manager for Kotlin/Native. Check this article to read the full announcement.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

The state of managing state (with Compose)
Jake Wharton has written a post giving some context to Molecule and the motivation to develop it.
code.cash.app

Migrating from Java to Kotlin: Collections and iterating through them
This post from JetBrains explains how to proceed when we migrate Collections from Java to Kotlin.
kotlinlang.org

Kotlin Native — Using Swift, not Objective-C
Interoperability with Kotlin and iOS has its own set of tricks. Paul Woitaschek explained a few of those that you should expect in this article.
medium.com

Optimising CI build times of a Kotlin Multiplatform project
Arkadii Ivanov has written an article explaining how we can split compilations of different targets between multiple hosts, and hence optimize our Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
proandroiddev.com

Variables point to objects
There is one thing in Computer Science widely taught and equally misused, and it is pointers. See in this article a few examples in Kotlin
kt.academy

KMM Oddity #2: Initialization order of top-level properties
Even with the Stable version, KMP will have a certain number of minor issues. Yev Kanivets explores some of those oddities in this series of articles.
medium.com

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Android

Kotlin Inline Classes in an Android World
The Kotlin Inline (Value) class is a relatively new feature of the Kotlin language as it recently got a stable release in Kotlin 1.5. There are a few issues regarding interoperability for Android developers, which Peter Törnhult expleined in this article.
proandroiddev.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!
capitalone.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

Runtastic is looking for (Senior) Android Engineers
Do you want to make a positive impact on people’s lives? Then Runtastic is the right place for you! We help millions of users live healthier via our Adidas Running and Adidas Training apps, and we are looking for (Senior) Android Engineers who are passionate and want to change the world with code. Let’s make the world a better place!
www.runtastic.com

Conferences

Kotlin KODERS 2021: December 1rst & 2nd in Paris
A conference for all things Kotlin with expert speakers from all over Europe. Join the community for 1 day of workshop and 1 day of conference, engage with experts & members of the Kotlin Team, and discover the Future of our favourite technology!
kotlin-koders.eu

Libraries

kotlin-math
kotlin-math is a set of Kotlin APIs to make graphics math easier to write.
github.com

MovieHunt
Movie Android App is written in Kotlin, MVVM, RxJava, Coroutine, Android Architecture Components and Jetpack Compose.
github.com

abc-kmm-location
Location Service Manager for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile iOS and Android.
github.com

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