Publishing artifacts for multiplatform Kotlin is a bit more complicated than a JVM project. If you are supporting all of Kotlin’s platforms, then need at least 3 build environments: linux, mac, and windows. Luckily there are easy and free options …
Why? Pinning is needed to protect data going from your app to your backend. Without certificate pinning your users traffic may be intercepted by a Man-in-the-middle attack (MITM). Even if you are using SSL connections (which everyone should be doing …
Writing code with Redux for web really doesn’t require consideration of threading and concurrent modification of variables. Given Javascript is single threaded its just not an issue. Working in JVM or Native suddenly presents a new set of challenges. Concurrent …
Computer science history is all about building upon the work that came before us – “standing on the shoulders of giants” as it goes. Kadane’s Algorithm is no exception. And in this case it took fresh eyes just one minute …
If you run into this in Android Studio, you may need a gradle update. I’ve ran into this while using Gradle v5.6.2 and Kotlin v1.3.61. I was also using the kotlin-dsl plugin for build.gradle . Apparently the kotlin-dsl plugin uses …
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Apple has always valued great user experience. Its App store is guarded by App store reviews with the authority to reject anything that does not meet its standards. This must be considered when selecting a multiplatform solution. Jobs himself was …
A common pattern is to delay execution of some code for a given amount of time. In Android and iOS there are several ways to do, such as the above snippet. How can we pull this into shared Kotlin Multiplatform …
Earlier this year I began work on ReduxKotlin.org – a port of the Javascript library Redux. This series of posts will describe the what, why, how, and the vision of Redux in the Kotlin ecosystem. Also, I gave a talk …
Using HTML in TextViews can be helpful for formatting, especially when displaying content retrieved from a server. For optimal layout and control a custom native layout – either XML or programmatic is preferred, however using HTML in a TextView can …
When inflating a layout from XML for a custom view or in an <include> tag in a xml layout, the <merge> tag is essential. The merge tag does exactly that – it merges its contents into the parent layout. This …