Issue #644

October 13th, 2024
Articles & Tutorials
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Kashif Mehmood announces a library with a simple API that lets you create camera apps without the hassle. It seamlessly uses AVCamera for iOS and CameraX for Android.
Michal Ankiersztajn shows how to use string resources inside ViewModel or any place you want, no matter what the source of the string is!
Blaž Vantur announce a new update that introduces several new features, making network debugging and inspection easier for teams working with Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
Mete Atamel looks at text embeddings and how Firestore and LangChain can help you to store text embeddings and do similarity searches against them.
Monika Kumar Jethani shows how to build generative AI powered chat-based apps using Google AI Client SDK.
Nitin Tiwari offers a comprehensive tutorial on converting and quantizing the latest YOLOv10 object detection model from Ultralytics into LiteRT (formerly TensorFlow Lite) format.
Eevis Panula shares how to animate a Canvas with Compose to create an illustration with planets and stars.
Kevin Galligan makes the case for why you should build mobile apps with Compose.
Kerry Bisset showcases the immense potential of modern development tools in creating efficient, scalable, and cross-platform applications
Anil Kumar Beesetti walks through how to conditionally show the ripple animation on Android and hide it on iOS, keeping your app feeling native on both platforms
Anton Arhipov gives a solid overview of what’s new and improved in Ktor 3.0.
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Libraries & Code
The CameraK Library is a camera solution designed for Compose Multiplatform, currently supporting both Android and iOS.
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The Kotlin Multiplatform Developer Roadmap offers comprehensive learning paths to help you understand KMP ecosystems.
News
Google shares the new Ink API, an alpha Jetpack library that makes it easy to create, render, and manipulate beautiful ink strokes, enabling developers to build amazing features on top of these APIs.
Videos & Podcasts
In this final video of the Refactoring GildedRose Mini series, Charfaoui Younes performs the final touches to the kata by using the abstraction, converting mutable properties to immutable ones, and much more.
In this short clip, Thomas Künneth shows how to add Java Swing components to a Compose hierarchy in a Compose Desktop app.
Philipp Lackner teaches everything you need about the different inline keywords in Kotlin (inline, crossinline, noinline) as well as how you can use them to inline functions, classes and variables.
Ivan Shafran explores the journey of publishing your pet project, library, or application to the open-source community
Code with the Italians and John Rodriguez, delving into the world of Paparazzi, the groundbreaking Android library from CashApp that allows developers to render application screens without needing a physical device or emulator.
Learn about key features and improvements in Android 15, the latest Pixel updates, new tools in Android Studio, inspiring developer journeys, and much more.
Join Pavel as he dives into multimodal generation with Genkit and Gemini.
Learn how to show native iOS components in Compose Multiplatform.
Daniel Atitienei shows how to create a simple pull to refresh LazyColumn using material3 and Jetpack Compose.