Kotlin Weekly #-469!

[SPONSORED] Download free Coroutines Cheat Sheet (cheat-sheet.kt.academy) Everything you need to know about Kotlin coroutines—launch, async, scope, dispatchers, structured concurrency, exception handling, and more. Concise, practical, and always within reach. Your go-to guide for writing clean, efficient asynchronous code.

Compose Multiplatform: Quickly develop a feature-rich text editor (medium.com) Article showcasing how to develop a feature-rich text editor using Compose Multiplatform.

Recomposition Is Not a Bug — You Are (medium.com) Article summarizing some of the best practices to deal with Recomposition.

Calling blocking functions from suspending functions (kt.academy) Learn how to safely call blocking Java APIs from Kotlin Coroutines using withContext(Dispatchers.IO) or custom dispatchers, and how to convert them into suspending functions or flows for better coroutine compatibility.

Understanding Kotlin Coroutines: A Deep Dive into Blocking vs Non-blocking and Concurrent vs Asynchronous Execution (medium.com) Gaëlle Minisini offers a hands-on guide to demystify blocking vs non-blocking and concurrent vs asynchronous coroutine execution, using practical experiments to build intuition around Kotlin’s coroutine behavior.

Building a TODO App Using MVI and Jetpack Compose (medium.com) An introduction to implementing MVI architecture in Jetpack Compose, focusing on unidirectional data flow, state management, reducers, and middlewares for scalable and testable UIs.

Kotlin Notebook Upgrade: Smoother UI and More Stability (www.youtube.com) Kotlin Notebook gets an upgrade! Check out what you can do with them in this video.

Down with Context Receivers - Migrating to Context Parameters (www.youtube.com) Duncan McGregor walks through migrating from deprecated context receivers to Kotlin 2.2’s new context parameters, highlighting practical fixes, quirks, and lessons from real-world code.

Compose Multiplatform Library Template (github.com) A template for a Compose Multiplatform library targeting desktop, Android, and iOS.

KTViewModelBuilder (github.com) A SwiftUI macro to use inside a Apple Kotlin multiplatform project for wrapping a Kotlin ViewModel into a SwiftUI ObservableObject, based on the SKIE library.

Kotlin Native Runtime for AWS Lambda (github.com) A runtime for executing AWS Lambda Functions written in Kotlin/Native, designed to reduce cold start issues common with the JVM platform.

Size Diff Action (github.com) GitHub Action to track a file’s size difference, compared to a main branch.

Carbon | Compose Multiplatform (github.com) A Compose Multiplatform implementation of IBM’s Carbon Design System.

app-privacy-policy-generator (github.com) An open-source app to create a generic or GDPR-compliant privacy policy and terms of use for your mobile apps.

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