Kotlin Weekly #-536!

Winners of the Kotlin Foundation Grants Program 2026 (kotlinfoundation.org) The Kotlin Foundation announces the five projects selected for its 2026 Grants Program: Dependency Analysis Gradle Plugin, Llamatik, FileKit, Kamera and JUnit. Each of them receives a $6,000 grant to fund the work in its proposal.

Developing for Today: 50+ New Developer Sessions on Building Apps Today (developer.android.com) Florina Muntenescu shares the more than 50 sessions released from Android Dev Summit 2026, each with a downloadable transcript enhanced with the content of the slides.

Build for every screen with the latest Jetpack Compose updates from Android Developer Summit (developer.android.com) Rebecca Gutteridge rounds up the Compose announcements from Android Dev Summit, including the new Jetpack AppState.

The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest Is Open: Win a Trip to KotlinConf (blog.jetbrains.com) The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back for students and recent graduates. The authors of the top three projects win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, and submissions are open until December 7.

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Koin Skills: Koin, the Right Way, with Your Agent (blog.insert-koin.io) Arnaud Giuliani introduces the official Koin skills for AI agents, released as a Claude Code plugin to help with setup, migrations from other DI frameworks and diagnosing errors.

Announcing General Availability of DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin (aws.amazon.com) Ian Botsford announces that DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin is generally available, and walks through its API along with the features added since the Developer Preview.

Jetpack Compose Mechanisms, Part 3: Recomposition Performance and Why Stability Still Matters (doveletter.dev) Jaewoong Eum closes his series on Jetpack Compose Mechanisms by looking at where Compose spends its time during recomposition, and why stability still matters now that strong skipping is the default.

From Kotlin Source to DEX: Tracing the Android Compilation Pipeline (medium.com) Ravi Rawal traces the path of your Kotlin code from the source file to the DEX instructions that run on the device

Inara: Inject your dependencies at compile time (kodein-koders.com) Salomon Brys, who created Kodein back in 2015, introduces Inara, a library to inject your dependencies at compile time in Kotlin Multiplatform.

Multithreading in Compose Multiplatform Web Apps (terrablog.pages.dev) Konstantin Tskhovrebov looks at multithreading in Compose Multiplatform apps with a web target, and what changes there compared to the other platforms.

Android Dev Summit 2026 keynote (www.youtube.com) Watch the Android Dev Summit 2026 keynote to catch up with everything announced at the event.

Bridging Threads and Coroutines: Behavior-Compatible Interop at Million-Line Scale - Droidcon Lisbon (www.youtube.com) In this talk from Droidcon Lisbon, Adrian Blanco explains how the OK app moved a million-line Android codebase from Java threads to Kotlin coroutines without changing existing behavior. You will also leave with a better mental model of how coroutines executes on threads.

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Haze 2.1: Shatterproof Glass (chrisbanes.me) Chris Banes releases Haze 2.1, where Glass is now stable and surfaces can merge and separate with the new hazeGlassContainer modifier.

Maradona (github.com) Sebastiano Poggi’s Maradona renders Mermaid diagrams as native Compose Multiplatform composables on desktop, Android and iOS, without a WebView or a JavaScript runtime.

Scrcpy Vwr (github.com) A desktop app built with Compose Multiplatform to mirror and control Android devices. It ships its own scrcpy client, so there is no need to install scrcpy or adb.

Ligand (github.com) Ligand lets you sketch organic chemistry structures and see them in 3D.

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