Kotlin Weekly - Kotlin Weekly #281

 
 

ISSUE #281

19th of November 2021
 



Announcements


Kotlin 1.6.10 has been released!
Kotlin 1.6.10 has been released. It is available for IntelliJ-based IDEs up to version 2021.3, with Android Studio plugins coming soon. Check out the full Changelog here.
github.com

Introducing Apollo Kotlin
Apollo Android, the type-safe, caching GraphQL client, is now 100% Kotlin based. This announcement walks us through some of its features.
www.apollographql.com



Articles


Sannsyn Case Study: a High-performance Backend for Modern Machine Learning
Hallvard Ystad, Sannsyn’s Community Manager for TellusR, tells us about the story of how Sannsyn applies Kotlin to complex system development.
blog.jetbrains.com

Continuation in Kotlin
FP magician Simon Vergauwen wrote an article elaborating about how the Continuation work in Kotlin coroutines.
nomisrev.github.io

Easier Testing with Kotlin Delegates
You can use constructor injection of interfaces along with Kotlin delegates to make your code more modular without changing your class hierarchy. Check out this article by Brady Aiello.
dev.to

Rx to Coroutines Concepts, Part 4: Cold Flows
In this last article of the series, In this post, Bill Phillips addresses the main tool used in Kotlin coroutines to represent asynchronous sequences of data: the Flow.
code.cash.app

Value Classes in Kotlin: Good-Bye, Type Aliases!?
With the advent of value classes, can we drop our type aliases and data classes altogether and replace them all with value classes? This article by Frederik Kammel reflects on the topic
quickbirdstudios.com

Things every Kotlin Developer should know about Coroutines. Part 2: CoroutineScope.
Max Kim dives into the CoroutineScope in his second article on the Coroutine series.
maxkim.eu

Exploring new AWS SDK for Kotlin
There was an announcement recently about the availability of the Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Kotlin. John O'Reilly outlines the initial exploration is done to use the SDK, and particularly the DynamoDB APIs.
johnoreilly.dev



Videos


Functional programming in Kotlin with Arrow.kt
Simon Vergauwen and Alejandro Serrano Mena speak about FP in Kotlin using Arrow, and its most relevant concepts.
www.youtube.com

Abrahams & Elizarov: The design of Swift
We know this is the Kotlin Weekly for a reason, but we could not avoid sending this interesting video: Dave Abrahams from Adobe and our and Roman Elizarov discussing the design of Swift as a language.
www.youtube.com

ktlint, A kotlin code style linter tool with built-in formatter for your Android apps!
ktlint is an anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with a built-in formatter. In this video, Mohit explains why you should apply ktlint for your project and how it works.
www.youtube.com



Podcast


ADB Episode 180: Kotlin Magic Platform
In this episode from ADB Yigit Boyar from the Android Toolkit Team talks about Kotlin multiplatform.
adbackstage.libsyn.com



Libraries


What’s up Koin? Release 3.1 & Beyond
Arnaud Giuliani summarises the plans for Koin behind version 3.0.1.
medium.com

SuspendActivityResult
A lightweight library for requesting and consuming Activity Results using coroutines.
github.com

Thistle
Thistle is a Kotlin Multiplatform inline styling markup library.
github.com

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