Kotlin Weekly #176

Hello from Japan Kotliners! Last two weeks of 2019, which has been an exciting year so far. Enjoy our curated selection of links - we are receiving so much content of Kotlin Multiplatform, especially after the KotlinConf.

Articles

Writing clean models using extensions
Models in Kotlin with data classes are already leaner and cleaner than their Java counterparts. However, you could use models using also extensions. Check out this article to explore how this can be done
okkotlin.com

Continuous delivery for your Kotlin Multiplatform library
The nice folks at Badoo have been experimenting with Kotlin multiplatform, and they realised that a CI/CD system needs a few adjustments in order to work properly. Check out in this article what you need to do.
badoo.com

Kotlin for cross-platform Mobile Development
JetBrains has put together a guide with all the information you need to get started doing cross-platform mobile development. If you werw wondering how, you need to check this out.
jetbrains.com

Learnings from KotinConf 2019
You probably have read a lot about the KotlinConf and what happened there. If you didn't, Lukas Lechner made a nice summary that you can read today.
medium.com

Android

Exploring GraphQL with Coroutines on Android
In this new article, Joe Birch puts hands down to work, and writes the foundations to set up a project for use with GraphQL, along with learning how we can perform queries.
joebirch.co

Kotlin serialization: update
When Mark Allison wrote his last article about Kotlin serialization, Kotlin sealed class hierarchies were not supported by kotlinx.serialisation. Now this has changed, and the process has been simplified quite a bit.
stylingandroid.com

Kotlin: Destructuring declarations
For Android developers who are making the transition from Java to Kotlin one of the more interesting features that you will eventually encounter is destructuring declarations. Check out in this article how does this work
proandroiddev.com

Press: A cross-platform markdown editor written in KMP
GDE Saket Narayan has written an open-sourced press, an entire markdown editor written in KMP. Check out another example of a real-world app.
github.com

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ISSUE #176