Kotlin Weekly #214

ISSUE #214

6th of August 2020

Hello Kotliners. We hope that wherever you are, you are staying healthy and safe. Check out our compilation of links for the upcoming week

Announcements

Dokka Alpha for Kotlin 1.4
JetBrains has released Dokka on Kotlin 1.4, aligning it with the latest stable version of the Kotlin compile
blog.jetbrains.com

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Goes Alpha
Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile goes Alpha, and you can start sharing business logic in your mobile apps with it right away
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

I wrote a GitHub Action using Kotlin
Leonidas Partsas wrote a GitHub action with Kotlin, and subsequently he also wrote an article explaining how he did it
le0nidas.gr

A Simple, Real World Example of Nothing in Kotlin.
Jason McCormack provides a practical example of how to use Kotlin’s Nothing type designation
medium.com

Coroutine Task Executor
Article by Erick Sumargo exploring Coroutines and how they work internally.
proandroiddev.com

Create your first Kotlin multiplatform mobile application in Android Studio
First things are the small ones, and with this article you can create your first KMP app for Android and learn by doing.
medium.com

Kotlin 1.4 Release
Kevin Galligan, Touchlab founder, has written an article summarising the goodies from the Kotlin release 1.4 and what he finds more relevant.
medium.com

Kotlin continuations
Continuations represent the rest of a program, and they are a form of control flow. Jorge Castillo wrote about how they are modeled in Kotlin.
jorgecastillo.dev

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