Kotlin Weekly Newsletter #140

Hello Kotliners! We hope you are enjoying the start of a new month. The Kotlin community keeps being hyper-active, awesome and it never stops creating content, and we hope you enjoy our selection for this upcoming week.

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Kotlin/Native Support for AppCode 2019.1 (jetbrains.com)
JetBrains has announced the new and improved Kotlin/Native plugin for AppCode 2019.1. Tired of XCode? We understand. With AppCode, you can enjoy extensive support for Objective-C, Swift and Kotlin.

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Managing exceptions in nested coroutine scopes (proandroiddev.com)
Coroutine scopes are the latest concept introduced to the Kotlin coroutines library before the 1.0 release. Scopes are really useful to group together some coroutines and to drive their lifecycle.

Understanding Talaiot (proandroiddev.com)
Talaiot is a simple Plugin written in Kotlin that helps to track the information of the Gradle tasks executed in your project during the build. Learn in this article by Inaki Villar its internal, and how to use it.

Understanding Kotlin Coroutines (youtube.com)
Marcin Moskala, from Kt. Academy, explains in this video how to use Kotlin Coroutines and what makes them so special and so efficient. He also discusses whether they are a suitable alternative to RxJava.

Kotlin Inline Classes – How they work and when you should use them (kotlinexpertise.com)
Kotlin introduced inline classes with version 1.3 as an experimental feature. If you do not use them yet, this article by Simon Wirtz will show you how inline classes in Kotlin work and when it makes sense to use them.

[LIBRARY] Reaktive (github.com)
Reaktive is a Kotlin multi-platform implementation of Reactive Extensions by Badoo.

KotlinConf CfP (twitter.com)
If you are thinking of submitting a paper to the KotlinConf, the CfP will be still open for 1.5 months. Do not miss the chance, and submit your proposal now.


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