ISSUE #297

10th of April 2022

Hello from Zürich folks! Kotlin 1.6.20 has been finally released, so you can probably take a look at the potential upgrade for your codebase next week. Now seat, relax, and take a look at our selection of articles for the upcoming week.

Announcements

Kotlin 1.6.20 Released
Kotlin 1.6.20 has officially been released. It offers previews of future language features, brings performance improvements for the JVM, JS, and Native platforms and more. Check out the official announcement in this post.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Structured concurrency explained - Part 2: Exceptions and Cancellations
Second article on the structured concurrency series, where Walid Lezzar explains exceptions and cancellations
www.thedevtavern.com

9 Useful Kotlin Flow Operators You Need to Know
Operators are at the heart of Kotlin Flow, like every reactive Framework. It allows manipulating items as they go from observable to observer. Jimmy Sanghani presents here 9 examples of Kotlin Flow operators.
blog.canopas.com

Kotlin Multiplatform Tales: A Shared ViewModel
David Chavez shares the approach they have been following at Double Symmetry to deal with common code in KMP.
medium.com

Resilient use cases with kotlin.Result, coroutines and annotations
Jacob Ras explains how he uses the Result class to create more resilient use cases.
proandroiddev.com

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www.privado.ai

Android

Retrofit With Kotlin- The Ultimate Guide
Piotr Wolak has put together a guide about using Retrofit with Kotlin.
codersee.com

Videos

Challenges of building Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries
Mohit Sarveiya presents on the Challenges of building Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries.
www.youtube.com

Jobs

Android Engineer - Remote First - UK
CollectingCars is a cutting edge online auction platform, and we are growing. Our mobile team is building out a brand new experience using the latest technologies and we are looking for passionate Android Engineers.
mobimeo.jobs.personio.de

Open role for Senior Android Engineer @ Forza_[X]
Join us in our new journey! Get challenged by projects, modern tools and frameworks while contributing with your technical expertise and coordinating to shape the team’s vision for the future. Discover more details in our role description!
collectingcars.com

Podcast

Dependency Analysis Android Gradle Plugin with Tony Robalik
Nico Corti speaks with Tony Robalik, Senior Software Engineer at Square, about the Dependency Analysis Android Gradle Plugin.
thebakery.dev

Libraries

Focus
A Gradle plugin that helps you speed up builds by excluding unnecessary modules.
github.com

Ballast
Ballast is an opinionated Application State Management framework for Kotlin Multiplatform.
github.com

Compose Navigation Reimagined
A small and simple, yet fully-fledged and customizable navigation library for Jetpack Compose.
github.com

ViewModel Lifecycle
ViewModel Lifecycle allows you to track and observe Jetpack ViewModel's lifecycle changes.
github.com

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