Kotlin Weekly Newsletter #115

Hello from Munich Kotliners! We hope you are enjoying the day. We are still suffering the hangover from the KotlinConf, so many new things to learn. We hope you enjoy our weekly curated issue!

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Talks from KotlinConf (youtube.com)
All the talks from KotlinConf have been uploaded to the JetBrainsTV YouTube channel. If you want to know how it feels when you discover a mine full of gold, click in the link above.

Inline Classes and Autoboxing in Kotlin (typealias.com)
Follow up article to "Introduction to Inline Classes" by Dave Leeds, and it's about how autoboxing applies to inline classes in Kotlin 1.3.

How Kotlin makes editing your Gradle build less frustrating (kotlin-academy.com)
Maintaining build.gradle files can become quickly super tedious. But we can migrate them from Groovy to Kotlin, and there are a few benefits we obtain out of the box. Check those benefits in this article.

Converting your iOS App to Android Using Kotlin (raywenderlich.com)
Check in this fantastic article by Lisa Luo a real world-case scenario about how to migrate your iOS App to Android using Kotlin.

Building a system of reactive components with Kotlin (badoo.com)
The folks at Badoo keep sharing with us their technology, and how are they architecting their software. In this new article, they give into how to build a system of reactive components with Kotlin.

[LIBRARY] Add syntactic sugar to your Android Preferences (liip.ch)
Android library built in Kotlin, that helps you to handle the SharedPreferences a little bit easier.

[LIBRARY] Ferris-Wheel (github.com)
An Android Library used to implement an animated Ferris Wheel in Android. It showcases a lot of techniques using Canvas 2D drawing, and it is definitely a fantastic resource to learn.

[LIBRARY] Protein (github.com)
Protein is a plugin for IntelliJ that automates the build of "Agents" for Android in Kotlin. It generates the code for Retrofit based on a Swagger endpoint.
 

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