ISSUE #196

3rd of May 2020

Hello Kotliners. We have seen lately that there has been an increase in the trend of Webinars, seminars... using Zoom and similar tools. Are they here to stay? We don't know, but certainly, the Kotlin world is benefiting from this. Check out our selection of links for the upcoming week.

Announcements

Kotlin Kernel for Jupyter Notebook, v0.8
JetBrains has released a new version of the Kotlin kernel for Jupyter Notebook. If you are experimenting with data, you should give notebooks with Kotlin kernel a try.
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Make your code beautiful with Kotlin Property Delegates
Marc Reichelt writes about how Kotlin Property Delegates can improve your code quite a bit.
dev.to

PeopleInSpace hits the web with Kotlin/JS and React
John O'Reilly has extended his repository PeopleInSpace and added it web capabilities. Check out on his journey.
johnoreilly.dev

Kotlin Coroutines
Magda Miu has written a detailed guide on coroutines: how they start, how they are canceled, threads context and much more. Everything you need to get started is here.
magdamiu.com

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Android

Custom Layouts, measuring and WithConstraints in Jetpack Compose
Jorge Castillo has been experimenting with WithConstraints and Compose. He shared a few of the lessons he learned on this article
jorgecastillo.dev

Android MVI architecture with Jetpack & Coroutines/Flow
Third article on the series of Android MVI architecture with JetPack and Coroutines and Flow, from Pavlos-Petros Tournaris, where focuses on creating Coroutine/Flow use cases.
medium.com

Podcast

Data2viz for Data Visualization
Hadi speaks in this chapter with Gaëtan Zoritchak about his work on data visualization using Kotlin
talkingkotlin.com

#TouchlabShare
In this week's #TouchlabShare, the folks from TouchLab will chat with Russell Wolf (author of Multiplatform Settings) and Ahmed El-Helw (Android Lead @ Careem), from his experience putting KMP on production
us02web.zoom.us

Libraries

Learning Kotlin Coroutines for Android by example
open-source project Kotlin Coroutine Use Cases on Android from Lukas Lechner, which currently includes 16 sample implementations of real-world Android Use Cases implemented with Coroutines.
github.com

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