Articles & Tutorials

If you have to have a splash (it isn't required), the new SplashScreen Compat API solves for a consistent look across OS versions. Bevan Steele explains how to use this new API.

Kirill Grouchnikov takes a look at Compose Desktop gradients and Skia shaders.

In this third post, Erik Hellman looks at the APIs for connecting and communicating with BLE peripherals.

Sponsored

Pierre-Yves Ricau describes how Leakcanary leverages WorkManager multi-process.

Pankaj Rai demonstrates that implementing swipe to dismiss with Jetpack Compose it’s just a matter of calling a single composable.

If you want to understand why to replace conditionals with polymorphism, how it is beneficial, and how you as a developer can leverage it to write better code then dive in with Abhishek Saxena.

Marco Gomiero describes how to fix the "Unable to locate a Java Runtime" error on Xcode with Kotlin Multiplatform

In this article, Mohit Sarveiya shares the purpose of a platform team, the responsibilities, and how to build one. He shares his experiences working on platform teams and the challenges you’ll encounter.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

An easy to use action/overflow menu for Jetpack Compose

Videos & Podcasts

Onyx Mueller's talk about "Writing Amazing Tech Specs!"

Watch Florian Walther build IncentiveTimer, a gamified Pomodoro app in this playlist.

Bhavna Thacker covers step by step approach of adding Hilt to your existing Kotlin Android project with MVVM architecture

In this video, you will learn how to use the Kotlin language inline class (a.k.a value class) to achieve a maintainable type-safe API.

Specials

Raul Hernandez Lopez's wrap up for the year 2021

Microsoft's wrap-up for all things dual-screen in 2021.

Márton Braun's wrap-up for 2021

Dan Lew's wrap-up for 2021

Magda Miu wraps up all she worked on in 2021

In this end-of-the-year special, Sebastian covers the most interesting Kotlin-related developments of 2021!