Doodle 0.6.2 adds Forms support and more. https://nacular.github.io/doodle/docs/ui_components/form https://github.com/nacular/doodle/releases/tag/v0.6.2 Slack Conversation

Dokka Is In Beta – Try It Now and Share Your Feedback! We are happy to announce that Dokka has reached Beta. This means we are getting close to making it Stable, but before we do, we need your feedback about the major new feature delivered in Beta – the new HTML output format. Example of a package The goal of this Beta release is to polish […]

🎉 We're past 6.5k kotlin libs on kamp.ml

KMM Plugin for Android Studio 0.3.0 Released The KMM Plugin for Android Studio 0.3.0 was recently released! It comes with lots of new features and improvements that simplify the creation of new KMM projects and improve the process of developing iOS applications based on Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile. The latest version of the plugin includes: A new KMM Library project wizard with the […]

Just before I'll get dragged into a month of christmassy preparations and celebrations, I gathered all forces and pushed the next kalasim milestone release v0.7 out into the wild. kalasim is an open-source discrete event simulator https://www.linkedin.com/posts/holgerbrandl_kalasim-v07-activity-6870457112590340096-6B0T

klip@0.3.0 mpp snapshot manager is out, with Kotlin 1.6.0 and kotest 5 support.

Random post K I shared my PyxlMoose app (written entirely in Kotlin) here a month or so ago, and I would like to give you all an update! 🤯 Epic video 🤯 demonstrating all of the new features is down below. If you are interested in supporting me on my journey on creating the best pixel art editor app for Android written 100% in Kotlin, please ⭐ my project here (let's get to 10 stars guys): https://github.com/realtomjoney/PyxlMoose Down below there are some awesome stuff YOU (actually it was me lol) guys have done with PyxlMoose: And share with your 🙍🏻 friends and 👪 family 🙂 You may be asking what's so special about this app? Well, my main point would be is that PyxlMoose is one of the first 100% K*Kotlin-made,* K open source 🎉 pixel art editor apps for Android.

I have released KVision 5.6.0 - https://kvision.io Highlights of this release: • Kotlin 1.6 support • Upgraded dependencies (Coroutines 1.6.0-RC, Serialization 1.3.1, Spring Boot 2.6.0, Ktor 1.6.6, Micronaut 3.2.0, Dokka 1.6.0) • Upgraded Snabbdom, Tabulator and Chart.js libraries to the new major versions • Other bugfixes and improvements See the changelog for more information: https://github.com/rjaros/kvision/releases/tag/5.6.0 As always any feedback is welcomed 🙂

On my educational YouTube channel The Self-Taught Software Engineer, I am running a series titled Career Paths in which I interview interesting people out of the technology industry to highlight their backgrounds, how they came into the sector, what they are passionate about – well, their career paths! That by itself has nothing to do with Kotlin of course (although I do have plenty of Kotlin-themed content on there as well K), but for the latest episode, I interviewed @Sebastian Aigner, Developer Advocate for Kotlin and Kotlin/JS at JetBrains. Check out how he came to JetBrains and his role in the first place, what his tasks are in that role, what his favorite computer game of all time is, and many more answers over here:

Hey everyone, I would like to invite you to the Advent of Kotlin  🙂 https://twitter.com/ktdotacademy/status/1465951463520223234

Compose Multiplatform 1.0 is going live! Compose Multiplatform by JetBrains, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached version 1.0, which makes it ready for production use! Here are a few highlights that we hope will make you as excited about the release of this framework as we are: On desktop, you can now create Kotlin apps with beautiful user interfaces […]

Advent of Code 2021 in Kotlin, Day 1 In this post, I’m going to walk you through my solution to the Advent of Code 2021 Day 1 task. Of course, I used Kotlin to solve it!  The input for the task is a text file, where each line is a number that represents a measurement of the depth of the seafloor. The task […]

Btw I'm solving al the problems of AoC in Kotlin! If you're interested check out the repo with my solutions here =) https://github.com/michaelgrigoryan25/aoc2021

A lot of us are in #advent-of-code discussing our solutions. We’re a friendly and supportive group, come on in and join us. We don’t post spoilers in the room, we have a daily solutions+spoilers thread, if you are worried about that.

How haven't I noticed that channel? 😅Thanks for the tip @todd.ginsberg !

If anyone is on the fence about participating in advent of code, hopefully this will make your decision easier. Just clone and start coding your solutions. No setup required.

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To make AOC2021 a bit extra fun, I came up with this -

println

in color (or not if it successfully detects missing support)!

Hello, in case you missed it, I made an article on racing coroutines almost a month ago but forgot to post it in this channel. It's something I do on a regular basis, maybe it'll also help you! https://blog.louiscad.com/coroutines-racing-why-and-how

Server-side With Kotlin Webinar Series, Vol. 4 Announcing a new series of webinars about Kotlin for server-side! These will be held between December 14 and 21. Join the live sessions or catch-up on the recordings afterwards! In this webinar series, our speakers will host step-by-step live coding sessions to show you what kinds of benefits you can get from Kotlin for server-side […]

Advent of Code 2021 in Kotlin, Day 3: Binary Diagnostic The nautical advent-ure continues with the third day of AOC 2021, which we will, of course, once more solve in Kotlin! This time, it will involve wrangling binary numbers in all sorts of ways. Check out the solution and a detailed explanation on YouTube, or follow along as we explain our solution in this blog […]

Results of the Kotlin Features Survey 2021 A few months ago we held the second poll for the most awaited features in Kotlin. The main goal of this research was to find out what you thought about the relative importance of future Kotlin features and the diversity of user scenarios. This research will help us to prioritize our long-term language development plans. […]

Kotlin 1.6 Support in IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 The two latest versions of IntelliJ IDEA (2021.2 and 2021.3) were released with a bundled Kotlin IDE Plugin based on the previous stable version of the Kotlin compiler. This situation caused a lot of confusion in the community. We would like to apologize for the current situation and answer all of your questions regarding Kotlin […]

Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin – Webinar Recording and Q&A “Always bet on the future. If you’re not willing to, it’s hard to enjoy a life in technology.” Geoffrey Challen On November 23, we held a ‘Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin’ webinar, featuring Geoffrey Challen, Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the lead instructor for a course, which […]

Hi all! I have released new version (0.2.9) of Ktoml (Kotlin native serialization library for Toml format). A bunch of new things were added since my last update in this group, including several new functionalities, support for Kotlin 1.6, KotlinJS, and other things. The library is growing and people are already actively using it. But unfortunately I am still supporting this alone, so I would like to invite you to test new version and may be even to contribute. At least you can help me to attract new developers with a small thing - a star on GitHub 😊 https://github.com/akuleshov7/ktoml

Doodle 0.6.3 is out. Strongly Typed Sliders

ValueSlider

,

Slider

and

CircularSlider

were previously tied to a

Double

. This meant it was not easy to force use cases where integer values would be more appropriate. This is now fixed, as these controls are now strongly typed to a numeric value instead of only supporting Double.

val slider = Slider(10 .. 20)
slider.value = 11.2 // will not compile since slider has a type of Int

More Flexible Layouts Layouts are generally triggered whenever their container's

size

changes or a child of the container has a

bounds

change. But there are cases when this default behavior does not work as well. A good example is a Layout that depends on a child's

idealSize

. Such a Layout won't be invoked when the

idealSizes

change, and will be out of date in some cases. This is now fixed by giving Layouts a chance to act when min/ideal-size changes for children of a Container. There are actually 3 new APIs that provide a lot of flexibility in how Layouts behave.

public fun requiresLayout(container: PositionableContainer, old: Size, new: Size): Boolean = true
public fun requiresLayout(child: Positionable, of: PositionableContainer, old: Rectangle, new: Rectangle): Boolean = false
public fun requiresLayout(child: Positionable, of: PositionableContainer, old: SizePreferences, new: SizePreferences): Boolean = false

Form Controls • New

switch

and

switchList

form controls • New

spinner

form control • New

framed

form control to wrap other controls in a configurable container • New

check

form control with arbitrary view as annotation •

radioList

,

checkList

,

named

and

labeled

form controls now allow a custom renderer and insets for their container • sub-forms now allow custom

Insets

and

behavior

Reactive & Functional Domain Modeling https://github.com/fraktalio/fmodel! KNew releases https://github.com/fraktalio/fmodel/releases/tag/v2.3.0 and https://github.com/fraktalio/fmodel/releases/tag/v1.2.0 🚀

Going live K this Thursday with a talk on 'Building Robust Software' here: