👋 Hi all! 😄 I'm building a program for writers to stay organized and think through their stories. It's a Kotlin desktop application using TornadoFx. While not a paid gig, it's a personal project that I've been working on for years that I would love to have some help finishing. It's an open source project, so you can pick up whatever you'd like to work on. DM me if you or someone you know would be interested and would like to know more! 🙂

Hi everyone. Whats the suitable option for hosting internal private libraries? MavenCentral, Github or JFrog Cloud?

This piece of C# code really offends me.

Does anyone use ben-manes/gradle-version-plugin? Any way to stop it from telling me about dep updates like this? [1.2.0 -> 1.3.0-alpha01]

Anyone know why this regex passes in regex101 when java is selected, but doesn't work in my kotlin app? Just trying to make sure a string has both upper and lower case letters. https://regex101.com/

(?=.*?[A-Z])(?=(.*[a-z]){1,})

Android

Sound

Does anyone know a decent guide for playing sounds on Android from pre-recorded samples, with simultaneous sounds, effects like reverb, loops, tone/pitch variations, attack variations, etc? Kinda like Tone.js. Looking into documentation I’m confused between MediaPlayer, SoundPool, AudioEffects, Oboe and such.

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Hi, I am trying out #compose-desktop and building a basic text editor. I wanted to add auto save functionality to it. Is there any existing library for this? If not, can someone please help me with the approach.

In 1.5

capitalize()

is deprecated and I'm prompted to replaced it with

replaceFirstChar { if (it.isLowerCase())
    it.titlecase(Locale.getDefault()) else it.toString() })

How's that better? I guess I'll re-create the shortcut myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I used to use https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/homebrew-openjdk for installing jdk, but recently it seems unmaintained. Getting it to work with m1 macbook has some troubles. What do other people use? Is SDKMAN still the top choice?

I wrote a pseudo-scope function in Java today to make some old-style construct-and-call-setters POJOs a bit easier to work with, and I’m not sure what to call it. Going by the Scope functions table, the conditions this function fulfills are • Object reference:

it

• Return value: Context object • Is extension function: No: takes the context object as an argument. None of the existing names really match how this function is used (though I guess

also

is close) and the best name I’ve been able to come up with is

build()

, but maybe there’s something better?

What are some of the habits you believe lead to spaghetti code in no time? For me: • mutating the arguments of functions • nested blocks with a depth > 2 • more than 3 arguments to a function • else blocks • classes with more than one job • refusing to refactor • ctrl-c/ctrl-v

Is there some sort of a Kotlin Discord server (official/non-official)? I would prefer to use that considering I never use Slack.

Perfect project name does not exi- github.com/sergeshustoff/dikt

hi there Have anyone update gradle from 6 to the 7 version for production projects(jvm, spring)? how it goes?

What's the deal with android and java versions. I don't get why I can use java 11 as my java home and still compile android code if android supports only java 7 (with some of 8)

I have a software development project management type question on where to host a new library that might be developed later on. On GitLab there are some related Kotlin libraries that cover developing native desktop applications (for Linux) that use a GUI, which are under a single organisation called GUI Vista ( https://gitlab.com/gui-vista ). This new library (if developed) would cover 2D graphics using the Cairo library ( https://www.cairographics.org/ ) as a base, however Cairo isn't related to GUI's and unlike the GUI Vista libraries doesn't use the GObject system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GObject ) as a foundation. What option should I go for with the new library. Please vote on one of the following options: • 1️⃣ - Make the new library part of the GUI Vista organisation • 2️⃣ - Have the new library in its own organisation • 3️⃣ - Organise the new library some other way (if voting for this option please leave a message)

Anyone have these emoji handy somewhere so I can add it to my discord? :kotlinnew: :kotlin-intensifies:

Compiled a thorough list of great macOS apps including those I can’t live without: https://sami.eljabali.org/macos-apps/

How can I close an issue I opened on YouTrack?

Design question: should the query API validate the argument or just query by the parameter despite whether it is valid?

I need to format a USA phone number, from the typical 10 digits to (123) 343-2345 I have this, but it feels a little cumbersome and not kotlin-y, but maybe it's what I have to do. Any suggestions?

fun formatPhoneNumber(original: String): String {
    var number = original
    number =
        number.dropLast(4) +
            "-" +
            number.substring(
                number.length - 4,
                number.length,
            )
    number =
        number.substring(0, number.length - 8) +
            ")" +
            number.substring(
                number.length - 8,
                number.length,
            )
    (number.dropLast(12) +
            "(" +
            number.substring(
                    number.length - 12,
                    number.length,
            )).also { number = it }
    return number
}

Why did Kotlin choose value class/inline class to implement

Result

instead of normal sealed class and data class inheritance?

Call this my ADHD or just me being a total weirdo, but I get a huge flow of happiness whenever IntelliJ has a UI update because Every. Single. Time. it always simplifies the UI and makes it easier to look at and process and it always just becomes better overall. So, thank you a lot to the IntelliJ UI devs for making my week just a little bit happier

Found this bizarre behaviour in 1.5.21: https://pl.kotl.in/v-YWrl1uT looks like it's already fixed in 1.5.30, but made me question my sanity when I first ran into it.. Trying to do an equality comparison on a primitive type that comes from a nullable interface is broken, and you can end up in a situation where you try to compare two bytes (in my example code) that have the same value, but the

==

comparison evaluates to

false

.

Anyone using Crashlytics, is it normal to not see crashes that cause app to never startup again? i.e. crash on start? Because I messedup sqlite migration, google play console is full of reports, crashlytics doesn't show any. (However google play reports are stupid because they for what ever reason strip exception messages, so its mostly useless)

Does anyone have a clue how is Craslhytics calculating crash-free sessions? Or is this some hyper-dimensional math I'm not aware of How can crashfree be non 100% when 0 crashes

Where can I learn more about event driven programming in kotlin.?😇

Anyone still find themselves looking for #general ? I've been searching for it for the last few minutes, thought I was finally losing it 😂 .