Kotlin Newsletter #65

Hello from Switzerland Kotliners! Today there was an extra hour in your schedules due to the Daylight Saving Time (DST). Do you have any plan on how to spend that hour? We suggest you grab some of the articles we are sending to you. 

Smooth your migration to Kotlin (fernandocejas.com)
How should you smooth your migration to Kotlin? Who should get involved? Which arguments should you capitalize or discard? Learn more about this and other questions in the new article of Fernando Cejas.

Kotlin Functional Programming I: Monad Stack (medium.com)
Jorge Castillo strikes back with a new post on his Functional Programming series using KΛTEGORY. Learn how to solve all the key architecture concerns that an app can have by using a stack of monads.

List asyncMap() for lazy Kotliniers (wordpress.com)
Jan Kotlin wrote an article with his experiments with parallelizing map() function for Kotlin lists and lazy Kotlin developers.

Writing a GraphQL service using Kotlin and Spring Boot (pusher.com)
GraphQL is a modern alternative to REST for writing web-based APIs . And obviously can be used with Kotlin. Learn how to do it using Kotlin and Spring Boot in this article.

Kotlin is Dope And So Are Its Custom Property Delegates (thoughtbot.com​)
Amanda Hill wrote an article explaining how to use one of her favorite features of the language - Delegated Properties. We only can recommend you to check it out.

Kotlin features I miss most in Java (simon-wirtz.de)
When you go for Kotlin you have already looked into the bright side, and it is hard to see Java with the same eyes. Simon Wirtz wrote an article with the features he misses more when he is developing in Java.

Improve your tests with Kotlin in Android  (proandroiddev.com)
Do you write tests? You should. Do you write them in Kotlin? You also should. In this article, you can learn how writing tests in Kotlin will improve your code and life quality.

Static Code Analysis Tools for Kotlin in Android (medium.com)
Learn in this article how to include a static analysis tool (Detekt) for a multi module Android Kotlin project and how to set it up to apply a set of rules to check the style, code smells, etc.

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