Kotlin Resources

If you want to learn how it works, what are its perils and dangers, read the article written by Marcin Moskała ➡️ "Use the data modifier to represent a bundle of data".

Years of OOP made us overuse inheritance. Instead, we should more often use composition, that is safer and more explicit. More often, but not always...

This episode is going to be all about testing and code coverage 🧪 as we have Evgeny Mandrikov on stage!

He’s going to tell use the story behind JaCoCo, aka Java Code Coverage, one the most popular code coverage library for Java, Kotlin and the JVM.

If you’re curious to learn how a code coverage tool works internally, make sure to don’t miss this episode.

Article about Navigation in a multi-module Android project.

Jetpack Compose is finally in beta! Here are our first impressions, and the resources we recommend for getting started with it.

In this episode, we talk about Dependency Injection 🗡. We have Arnaud Giuliani on stage, Kotlin GDE and author of Koin, a popular dependency injection framework for Kotlin.

Koin works well for Android projects, but it can be used also in backend projects and the Multiplatform support is just behind the corner.

What are the key changes in dotenv-linter v3.0.0 release?

Dotenv-linter — a lightning-fast linter for checking, fixing and comparing .env files. It helps to find problems in .env files that you might miss at first, but which later may result in incorrect work of applications.

Sebastian is with us to talk about Jetpack Compose Desktop, a new declarative UI framework for Desktop applications written in Kotlin.

Jetpack Compose Desktop is the porting of Jetpack Compose, the declarative UI framework for Android. JetBrains took the Compose to the next level offering a lot of new APIs and tools to make Desktop UI development a pleasure again. The project gained a lot of popularity recently on Github.

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile allows you to share the same business logic code in cross-platform development without repeatedly coding for other platforms. Here is how you can build your first app using KMM.

Kotlin was introduced to overcome the creative limitations of JAVA and has broken the barriers of every developer's expectations. Its popularity rose after Google stated that KOTLIN is one of its official programming languages.

Let’s kickoff 2021 with a great open-source tool: danger ⚠️! Danger’s motto is Stop saying “You forgot to…” in code review and it definitely delivers greatly on promises. With Danger, you can automatize recurrent and tedious tasks that affect your pull-requests.

Today, we have Franco Meloni on stage, one of the maintainer of danger/swift & danger/kotlin that will tell us the recipe for a friction-less pull code-review process.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

In this episode, we talk about Gradle Doctor with its author Nelson Osacky. Gradle doctor helps you fix performance problems and errors in your Gradle build. The tool works as a Gradle plugin - emitting prescriptions for all the problems found. Nelson tells us how he came up with the idea behind this tool, and what the future is for Gradle Doctor.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

FOSDEM, is the biggest european conference about FLOSS. Totally free and 100% community organised.
This year we’re going to have a “virtual” Kotlin DevRoom at FOSDEM 2021
The CFP is open and will close on December 27th

You can reach out to the #fosdem channel on KotlinLang Slack if you have questions

It might raise some eyebrows comparing Flutter vs Kotlin Multiplatform. But JetBrains have seriously entered the cross-platform realm and could surprise.

Overcoming Fear Of Missing Out with Kotlin and IntelliJ.

Part 5 of a series on "Kotlin for Interviews" written by Sherry Yuan. This part covers frequently used code snippets, like creating graphs in adjacency list form, breadth and depth first search, tree traversal and dynamic programming/memoization.

Everything that you need to know about Kotlin Multiplatform, prerequisites & the basic steps of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) application.

This part covers Refresher on Range, 1D arrays/lists, 2D arrays/lists, Maps and PriorityQueues.

How to use Build Matrix to test your project against different version of a language, a library or an operating system

Part 3 of a series on "Kotlin for Interviews" written by @Sherry Yuan. This part covers Numbers and Math topics, like number types and math operators, as well as useful functions and constants

It covers a few common data types that appear often in algorithms and data structures questions

In this article we are going to use LiveData with Coroutines and We will use Flow for asynchronous operations.

Kotlin is a great language and if you want to learn Kotlin here are the best online courses you can join

The reasons are deeper than you think.

Kotlin coding conventions denotes that we should prefer if for binary and when for three or more options.

How a test-first approach can help speed up your development

It refers to manage the state of the user interface while interacting with widgets like text fields, buttons, radio buttons, etc.
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The new way to make mandatory parameters in Kotlin DSLs. in Android

It’s all about the bytecode

Explaining the Kotlin’s noinline and crossinline keywords, with a simple example, once for all.