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ISSUE #298

17th of April 2022
 

Hi folks! If you are taking some holidays these days we hope you enjoy the time off. Enjoy our selection of links for the upcoming week!



Articles


Flow under the hood: how does it really work
Kotlin Coroutines Flow is a much simpler concept than most developers think. It is just a definition of what operations to execute. In this article from Kotlin Academy, you will be able to read a deep explanation of how Flow works.
kt.academy

Refactoring an Android App to Kotlin Multiplatform
In this article, Alekxander Jaworski shares his experience making a Kotlin Multiplatform app from an Android-only codebase.
akjaw.com

Easy dependency integration in Kotlin/JS using the Elm ports technique
Julien Lengrandm found it hard to use large NPM libraries like Firebase in Kotlin/JS. But his past experiences with Elm and its system of ports helped him to find a suitable solution.
lengrand.fr

Deep Dive into Dispatchers for Kotlin Coroutines
Bhavna Thacker writes about what Dispatchers are, their types, specifics of Unconfined Dispatchers and the main difference between IO and Default dispatchers.
medium.com
 


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Android


From View to Composable: A Quick jump to Jetpack Compose from an Android View mindset
We know that switching from the View system to Compose requires a mindset change. Alex Styl has written an article explaining how it works exactly (including a useful cheatsheet)
medium.com



Videos


Setting up Kotlin Multiplatform
Setting up a KMP project can be a bit of a hassle. James Black shared a video with some of his tips to do it.
www.youtube.com
 


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Podcast


Jetpack Compose UI Development with Thomas Künneth
Matt McKenna and Madona Wambua talk with Thomas Künneth about Compose, his last book, Android and more.
androiddevdiscussions.substack.com



Conferences


Android Worldwide
The Android worldwide conference has open registrations for the upcoming 19th of April. Feel free to register, attendance is free.
www.airmeet.com



Libraries


Koin 3.1.6 Release & Long Term Support
A new release of Koin (3.1.6) is out. This is the last version of 3.1 branch versions, and the first Long Term Support (LTS) version with Kotzilla.
blog.kotzilla.io

Ketex
An idiomatic Kotlin DSL for creating regular expressions.
github.com

Spatial K
A set of Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries for working with geospatial data.
github.com

RSocket Kotlin
RSocket Kotlin multi-platform implementation based on kotlinx.coroutines and ktor-io.
github.com

KMath release 0.3.0 is out
KMath release 0.3.0 is out, with tons of features; a year of work and a lot of think-power put into it.
github.com

Sandwich
Sandwich is a lightweight sealed API library by Jaewoong Eum for modeling Retrofit responses and handling exceptions.
kt.academy

KVMapper
A Key-Value Mapper app for MacOS, created with Kotlin and Compose Desktop
github.com
 

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Kotlin Weekly #297

Sunday, April 10, 2022

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,

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ISSUE #296 3rd of April 2022 Announcements Android Integration and Support for All Kinds of Multiplatform Projects in the Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Plugin for AppCode Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile

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ISSUE #295 27th of March 2022 Articles How to leverage functional programming in Kotlin to write better, cleaner code In this post from DoorDash you will learn what the benefits and potential downsides

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ISSUE #294 20th of March 2022 Articles Improved caching with Kotlin flows and the reduce function Annyce Davis has been working to reduce the load on a database by focusing on various caching solutions

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