ISSUE #284

9th of January 2022

Articles

Development of a Multiplatform project from iOS Engineer's perspective
We often hear that the first impediment to the adoption of KMM is the acceptance by the iOS side of things. This article elaborates on the iOS perspective while developing a Multiplatform project.
dev.to

Things every Kotlin Developer should know about Coroutines. Part 4: Exception Handling.
In the next article on the series, Maksim Kims analyzes the options we have to do Exception Handling for Coroutines.
maxkim.eu

Manual CoroutineScopes: how to avoid GlobalScope
In certain cases, using GlobalScope coroutine scope can become an anti-pattern. Learn in this article how to avoid it.
www.rockandnull.com

Measuring time and durations in Kotlin
The DurationAPI is coming out of experimental stage, and offers a nice DSL to easily work with Time durations (duh!). It offers the obvious but also nice extra goodies like coercions and ISO/ String conversions and is notably used to calculate processing time.
lengrand.fr

Android

Automatic screenshot testing for all your Compose Previews
Learn in this article by David Vávra how to automate screenshot testing for your Compose Previews.
proandroiddev.com

Videos

How to use inline class (a.k.a value class) in Kotlin to achieve type safety?
When defining APIs or your app's different layers you may reach a point that needs the input to be type-safe. Learn in this video how to use the Kotlin language inline class to achieve a maintainable type-safe API.
www.youtube.com

Jobs

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Developer
Touchlab is looking for someone who has Android/Kotlin experience and is eager to dive into KMM development. Open the link to know more about this role.
touchlab.co

Libraries

Capturable
Jetpack Compose utility library for capturing Composable content and transforming it into Bitmap Image.
github.com

GitHub Viewer KMM
GitHub Viewer KMM is a demo application using open GitHub API and Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
github.com

Kermit and Crashlytics
Crash reporting and KMP can be a little tricky, but Touchlab have you covered. They have added some integrations to Kermit to make it easier. Read about Kermit and Crashlytics.
touchlab.co

Another Performance Monitor for Android apps
Kamper is a small KMM/KMP library that provides performance monitoring for your app.
github.com

Kotlin Multiplatform Wizard
Kotlin Multiplatform Wizard helps you to create KMP projects while selecting the features you want in. You can see how it achieves this on the GitHub repo.
terrakok.github.io

Klutter
Klutter is a framework and toolset which uses Flutter to create the frontend and Kotlin Multiplatform for the backend.
github.com

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