ISSUE #207

19th of July 2020

Hello Kotliners! We have a lot of goodies this week coming from Google, including a new course and a Developer Stories page. Check them out!

Announcements

Learn Android and Kotlin with no programming experience
Google has just launched a new course today for programming beginners called Android Basics in Kotlin.
android-developers.googleblog.com

Articles

Kotlin Developer Stories
Have you ever been searching for Kotlin usage testimonials and listen to other developers about their stories? Google has released their Developer Stories page, where they collect a number of real world stories. Featuring Duolingo or Google home.
developer.android.com

Keep your interfaces simple
New article by Danny Preussler explaining how we can write good APIs by avoiding implicit connections and using extension functions
proandroiddev.com

Kotlin exploration — sequence or not sequence
Toan Tran has written an article exploring one of the features of Kotlin: sequences: what are they, how and when should we use them and performance hype.
medium.com

Kotlin 1.4-M3: Generating Default Methods in Interfaces
JetBrains is adding new experimental ways for generating default methods in interfaces in the bytecode for the Java 8 target
blog.jetbrains.com

Android

LiveData with Coroutines and Flow — Part I: Reactive UIs
First article in the series on LiveData with Coroutines and Flow by Jose Alcérreca
medium.com

Videos

Android Coroutines: How to manage async tasks in Kotlin
Manuel Vivo has a new talk on coroutines and how to use them on Android
www.youtube.com

Podcast

ADB Episode 144: Compilers
This week's Android Developers Backstage podcast episode was on Kotlin with some interesting tidbits from the Google team working on the new JVM compiler
androidbackstage.blogspot.com

Gradient Descent
Hadi speaks in this chapter with Erik Meijer to discuss gradient descents and how understanding this can lead to demystifying machine learning (and why he chose Kotlin).
talkingkotlin.com

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