Kotlin Weekly #-475!

Kotlin 2.2.20 Released (blog.jetbrains.com) Kotlin 2.2.20 is released with Kotlin/Wasm Beta, improved multiplatform support, JS and Native enhancements, and better tooling for web development. Check out the announcement here.

Your Voice Belongs Here: Creating Compelling KotlinConf Proposals (blog.jetbrains.com) Ksenia Shneyveys highlights a livestream guiding underrepresented Kotlin speakers on crafting standout KotlinConf proposals and sharing their stories.

Android Studio Narwhal 3 Feature Drop: Resizable Compose Preview, monthly releases and smarter AI (android-developers.googleblog.com) Paris Hsu highlights Android Studio Narwhal 3’s resizable Compose Preview, AI-powered Gemini enhancements, and improved tools for backup, policy insights, and project optimization.

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[SPONSORED] Master Kotlin Coroutines in 5 weeks with Marcin Moskała — author, trainer, and conference speaker (coroutinesmastery.com) Marcin Moskała is a renowned Kotlin Coroutines expert — author of the most popular book on coroutines, trainer of hundreds of developers, and a frequent speaker at KotlinConf and Android conferences. With 7+ years of teaching, he has seen every pitfall. His 5-week program, Coroutines Mastery, turns confusion into production-ready skills with lessons, coding practice, and live Q&As.

Composing App State, or there and back again (coroutinesmastery.com) Beatrice Kinya explains how to manage app state with Square’s Workflow library by modeling features as composable state machines in Kotlin.

From Python to Kotlin: How JetBrains Revolutionized AI Agent Development (medium.com) Vadim Briliantov explains how JetBrains’ Koog empowers JVM developers to build production-grade AI agents in Kotlin, overcoming Python’s limitations for enterprise AI.

Inside Burst’s Test Interceptors (publicobject.com) Jesse Wilson presents Burst’s Kotlin Multiplatform test interceptors, offering JUnit-like lifecycle control, chaining, and inheritance without reflection.

Pragmatic KMP for Mobile at Somnox - Part 3 (kiranrao.in) Kiran Rao shows how Somnox pragmatically adopted Kotlin Multiplatform, integrating shared code into Android/iOS before moving to a monorepo.

Kotlin Data Structures: What to Use and When (carrion.dev) Ignacio Carrión explains how to choose the right Kotlin data structure for performance, from lists and sets to queues and immutable collections.

Firebender - TypeAlias Show #8 (www.youtube.com) Dave Leeds and guest Kevin Tang explore Kotlin roadmap updates, survey results, and showcase Firebender for Android app building in TypeAlias Show #8.

Checkout Kata in Kotlin - Part 1 - TDD (www.youtube.com) Duncan McGregor demonstrates Test-Driven Development in Kotlin by implementing the Checkout Kata with a focus on simple, incremental, and readable code.

SqlDelight AndroidX Driver (github.com) sqldelight-androidx-driver provides a SQLDelight SqlDriver that wraps the AndroidX Kotlin Multiplatform SQLite libraries.

SnakeYAML Engine KMP (github.com) SnakeYAML Engine KMP is a YAML 1.2 processor for Kotlin Multiplatform

Kodio (github.com) Kodio is a Kotlin Multiplatform library for straightforward audio recording and playback.

CIDRE (github.com) CIDRE is a Kotlin Multiplatform library for IP address and network representation, CIDR math, and subnet operations with zero external dependencies.

KmpAppInsights (github.com) A Microsoft AppInsights Client compatible for Kotlin Multiplatform. Captures Crash Logs by saving to Disk.

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