They've put Room on the web with its KMP-packed 3.0 release!
Check out the sample here:
https://github.com/danysantiago/room-web-demo/
To persist across page reloads, swap from the `inMemoryDatabaseBuilder` to a regular `databaseBuilder` and specify a file name.
FlexBox is an experimental Jetpack Compose container that lays out items in a single direction, dynamically resizing, wrapping, and aligning them to optimally fill the available space. We just launched new documentation for this feature last week:
https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/layouts/adaptive/flexbox
All the Kotlin versions in a single blog post!
(or almost all ^^)
Re: Dependency Injection vs. Service Locators
https://www.zacsweers.dev/re-dependency-injection-vs-service-locators/
This is a port of a write-up I did in the Kotlin Lang slack here in response to the question "Dagger vs. Hilt vs. Koin vs. Metro vs. <what comes next>. Serious question: Are there any compelling reasons to switch from Koin to Metro in a Compose Kotlin multiplatform project?" I think it's</what>
Rounds has a Kotlin server that integrates a few things: PostgreSQL persistence via SQLDelight (hosted on PlanetScale!)WebAuthn4J for Passkeyskotlinx.html for dynamic web pagesKtor for HTTP bindingThe service uses six database tables. The business domain tables are Game and GameEvent. Support for auth, sessions, and collaborative editing adds Account,
Here’s a program that launches 3 jobs. The first runs forever and the other two exchange a value. @Test fun test() = runTest { val channel = Channel<String>() val deferredA = async { while (isActive) { delay(1_000) } } val deferredB = async { channel.send("hello") } val deferredC = async { channel.receive() } deferredB.await(
Just as an FYI to all you Android folks upgrading to AGP 9, I made this tracker to help identify what plugins are compatible and how to workaround the ones that aren't. Feel free to update and contribute if anything is missing or out of date.
If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from?
New blog post on the 'disappearing middle':
https://chrisbanes.me/posts/disappearing-middle-ai-software-apprenticeship/
How AI coding agents are automating away the developer apprenticeship ladder. Discover three personas for using agentic programming effectively, when it accelerates work, and critical guardrails to protect junior engineer growth.
Compose Hot Reload is now stable. 🔥
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-hot-reload/releases/tag/v1.0.0
If you are hitting a bunch of Gradle configuration cache invalidations, you might find my post helpful
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