Hey hey 👋 Dropping a new episode of the The Developers’ Bakery: 🦊 Firefox for Android with @Sebastian Kaspari You don’t get to develop a browser every day right? Sebastian will guide us through what it takes to deliver the Firefox experience to Android and beyond. You can listen to it on the website here: https://thebakery.dev/21/ or on the major streaming platforms. As always, any feedback is more than welcome 🙏

Ensuring control over npm dependencies in Kotlin/JS projects Yesterday we published a blog post about a potential security issue caused by ua-parser-js, a dependent package that is used in the popular testing framework Karma, which in turn is the default choice for Kotlin/JS and Kotlin Multiplatform applications targeting JS. In the post, we recommended that you may want to consider locking packages you […]

Atrium v0.17.0 is out with a re-worked to + infinitive naming schema: https://github.com/robstoll/atrium/releases/tag/v0.17.0 Thanks to all contributors making this assertion library even better 😺

How we test Kotlin Coroutines, including common Android and backend cases. Testing Kotlin Coroutines by @marcinmoskala 👇 https://kt.academy/article/cc-testing

KMM Beta Roadmap Video Highlights The Kotlin 2021 Premier Online Event is in full swing, and The KMM Beta Roadmap video is already available for you to watch! In this video, Ekaterina Petrova discusses all the important changes that you can expect with KMM Beta, which will be available in Spring 2022. These changes include a new memory management approach […]

an example of using kotlin for data pipelines: • blog post: https://hazelcast.com/blog/hazelcast-kibana-best-buddies-for-exploring-and-visualizing-data/ • github repo: https://github.com/hazelcast-demos/wikipedia-changes

micro-template v0.3.0 is out, supporting iterables rendering and char escaping. It’s a tiny library but it’s growing day after day, thanks for passing by!

Random Post!!! K🤯 I'm creating an K epic K pixel art editor app in Kotlin called PyxlMoose! 🦌 (< - oh wait that's a deer 🤣) Contributing Guidelines I would love your input! I have a goal of making contributing to this project as easy and transparent as possible, whether it's: - Reporting a bug - Discussing the current state of the code - Submitting a fix - Proposing new features - Becoming a maintainer Want to collaborate? If you want to collaborate with me on the project flick me an email at tomdoescodeallday@gmail.com. Fun fact: My app uses the brand new Material3 Components 🎉 Please star! ⭐ if you think the project is cool 😄 https://github.com/realtomjoney/PyxlMoose (edited) (edited)

Video of my amazing app ❤️ Ui:

Compose Multiplatform Goes Beta: Stabilized APIs, Compatibility with Google’s Compose Artifacts, and More Compose Multiplatform, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached Beta. This brings Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web another step closer to their stable release later this year. Here are the highlights: We are starting to stabilize APIs in preparation for the 1.0 release, and we’re explicitly marking experimental interfaces. Compose Multiplatform now […]

What a channel is, how it works, and where we can use it. Channel in Kotlin Coroutines by @marcinmoskala 👇 https://kt.academy/article/cc-channel

KVision 5.5.0 is out! https://github.com/rjaros/kvision/releases/tag/5.5.0

In this video, I am sharing with you my personal top 10 list of generally applicable, standard library-esque extension functions that I'd like to see in there one day! Some are more applicable than others, but that's why there's a ranking to them. In the second half of the video, I am sharing two major reasons why extension functions are so important for Kotlin as a programming language K

Kotlin for Server-Side Frameworks News: Kotlin Premier Event Presentation Highlights The Kotlin Online Event is over. But we thought we’d give a quick recap of the two server-side talks: What’s New in Ktor 2.0 and Spring Native with Kotlin. In these presentations, Hadi Hariri and Sébastien Deleuze took us on a pair of deep dives into the multiplatform abilities of the frameworks. What’s New in […]

This article is an introduction to database interaction with Kotlin. Roughly, it tries to answer the following questions, 1. What is JDBC? And how to use it with Kotlin? 2. What is a JDBC URL? 3. How to establish a connection with a database and execute SQL queries. 4. What is connection pooling and how to implement it with HikariCP? I would appreciate any suggestion or feedback. https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-access-database-with-kotlin-6b86f6680cd7

K2 Compiler, Kotlin/Wasm, and Tooling Announcements at the 2021 Kotlin Event The Kotlin 2021 Premier Online Event has come to an end! It began with a keynote presentation that covered a variety of major announcements, and it continued with a series of talks, each dedicated to an individual piece of news: the new K2 compiler, tooling, backend development frameworks, cross-platform solutions, and more. All of the […]

To help our team start using Kotlin in backend development we created this guide for using Coroutines in Kotlin. Now we are sharing it with the engineering community, be sure to read it and pass it along. https://doordash.engineering/2021/11/09/the-beginners-guide-to-kotlin-coroutine-internals/

Gradle JVM Toolchain Support in the Kotlin Plugin Maintaining Gradle build setups to have a reliable and reproducible build process is not always easy. In this blog post, we’ll tell you about one of the Gradle features that Kotlin has recently added support for – JVM toolchain. This feature provides a simple way to have a reproducible build independent from the user JDK, […]

Seven Highlights from the Kotlin Roadmap Autumn 2021 Kotlin is built for translating ideas into code. We try to remove all obstacles that are in the way of your ideas and make reading and writing Kotlin simple and fun. To make this possible, we need a very complex engineering system that consists of many parts: the language syntax, the compiler frontend and backends, […]

Jetpack Compose Android has this bug open on issue tracker : https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/187746439 this is regarding keyboard type from alpha numeric to numeric when the focus is changed I have added a blog regarding a possible workaround for it, hope it helps https://chetangupta.net/keyboard-switch-bug/

Found a kotlin mall in London today 😂

Made with kotlin, ❤️ and #kalasim https://www.linkedin.com/posts/holgerbrandl_the-bridge-game-activity-6866128593727037441-ehTF

micro-template v0.4.0 is out, supporting a typed template wrapper. Now you can do this:

val hello = MicroTemplate("Hello, {title}{name}")
val typedHello = TypedMicroTemplate(hello, BusinessCard::class)

typedHello(BusinessCard(name = "Smith", title = "Mr.")) // Hello, Mr.Smith
typedHello(mapOf("name" to "Smith")) // won't compile!

It’s a tiny library but it’s growing day after day, thanks for passing by!

Hi, We have officially released 5 kmm libraries. https://twitter.com/LINE_DEV_EN/status/1456180731965706248?s=20

Hey, here is the investigation on the order of initialization of top-level properties in Kotlin/JVM vs Kotlin/Native: https://medium.com/xorum-io/kmm-oddity-2-initialization-order-of-top-level-properties-edd11ec350a2?sk=7ca5a38134e6faa15ec02a33debe8599. Don't hesitate to share your experience in this edgy topic in comments 😉

Kotlin 1.6.0 Released Kotlin 1.6.0 is now officially released with Stable exhaustive whens, Kover, and a new memory manager for Kotlin/Native. Other language and standard library features released in 1.5.30 became Stable as well. Thanks for the feedback you’ve shared with us. If you still haven’t tried these new features out, now is the time! In this blog […]

New MockK release, with lots of contributions coming from hacktoberfest! It’s basically a bugfix release, no big features coming, but a good number of tiny improvements 🙂 https://github.com/mockk/mockk/releases/tag/1.12.1

Join the Webinar: Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin We invite you to join us for a live webinar, ‘Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin’, featuring Geoffrey Challen, Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. Tuesday, November 23, at 4:00 PM UTC. In this webinar, Geoffrey will share his experience using Kotlin and explain why he chose it for teaching introductory programming. Geoffrey […]