Articles & Tutorials

Lena Stepanova introduces her series about Kotlin Multiplatform, mobile apps, and pizza.

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Bevan Steele makes it a bit clearer how to create and manage your own CoroutineScopes and to avoid GlobalScope whenever possible.

In this post, Ian Alexander writes about creating application-specific screen templates for Compose & SwiftUI, which cut down the amount of code needed and make apps far more consistent.

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Sinan Kozak shares a way to make a smarter composable when the text doesn't fit on the screen and you need to show some details about the rest.

What if your app doesn't need all that space running on a large device? This article explores how to deal with too much room.

Android Studio renders composables with @Preview annotations. What if all of them could be automatically turned into screenshot tests? David Vávra shares a neat technique to do just that.

Ziv Kesten examines creating a custom button with Jetpack Compose, including custom animations, and using it in an existing project.

Max Kim continues the series on Kotlin Coroutines, taking a closer look at exception handling.

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

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Libraries & Code

New version: 2.0.0 is now released! Jetpack compose support - improved animations and API

Premo is a Kotlin Multiplatform library that helps you implement the Presentation Layer and share it on Android, iOS, Desktop and Web. Focus on writing logic instead of solving common and boring UI related issues.

This repository accompanies a series of blog posts on the process of building an app with Kotlin Multiplatform

A web-based wizard for creating new Kotlin Multiplatform projects.

Videos & Podcasts

What you'll learn from this talk by Rahul Pandey: The impacts of imposter syndrome, seeing it as a growth opportunity, tips on overcoming it, and fostering a friendly environment to help others on your team grow.

This session by Bhavna Thacker covers various Tools, Technologies, Libraries and App Architecture - recommended by Google for Modern Android Development (MAD) Skills

Check out the most interesting developments around Kotlin in December 2021!