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

Sponsored

How the Android Framework Actually Triggers ANRs
ANRs happen for way more reasons than just blocking the main thread for 5 seconds. Join this webinar for a deep dive into the Android internals for ANRs, including how they are monitored, processed, and triggered. You'll also learn about different approaches to detecting ANRs in production.
go.embrace.io

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

Jobs

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!
forzafootball.teamtailor.com

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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