In Russell Wolf’s captivating lightning talk, he takes us on a journey through the history of his library, Multiplatform Settings. Surprisingly, it has already been 5 years since its initial launch and it’s great to see it’s continued development (and the release of v1.0.0) as one of the cornerstone libraries of multiplatform development. One of the important messages in his talk is for us to remember that this is an open source library and requires the communities support to help its future development. It’s always worth remembering to contribute to open source you don’t have to contribute code.

Egor Tolstoy, recently delivered an intriguing lightning talk about the work he does as a product manager on Kotlin. As an example, he touched on the subject of range operators, .. and until, in the language and as part of the journey showed some interesting stats of their use. …

I really enjoyed watching the talk on meta-programming by Tadeáš Kříž at KotlinConf’23 where he provided an excellent overview of the two main options for generating and/or altering code during compilation. …

I had the pleasure of attending the fascinating talk by Huyen Tue Dao at KotlinConf’23 where she explored the question of idomatic Kotlin code. While the conclusion that “it matters what is best for you” might seem slightly disappointing, the journey to that conclusion was both informative and enlightening. …

I recently had the pleasure of listening to Urs Peter’s talk on Kotlin & Functional. The speaker gave a great, simple summary of what a Monad is and how it works. In essence: a Monoid is combinable (plus) and has an identity (empty) element which when combined with…

I recently attended KotlinConf’23 Amsterdam; these are some of my thoughts on talks I enjoyed. Kotlin & Functional Programming: pick the best, skip the rest by Urs Peter. Dissecting Kotlin: Unsealing the Sealed, the SAM, and Other Syntax by Huyen Tue Dao Meta-programming with KSP and Kotlin compiler plugins by Tadeáš Kříž Why code autocompletion works faster on weekends by Egor Tolstoy Kotlin Multiplatform

When I first released my open-source certificate transparency library for Android and the JVM, I provided mechanisms to cover the majority of network connections, namely OkHttp, HttpURLConnection and Volley. However, there was no support for Android WebViews. If you want to learn more about certificate transparency, read Android Security: Certificate…

When the final Android 12 beta came out on the 8th September, I didn’t think much about it. When previously running the app I’m working on in earlier betas, I haven’t found too many problems. Except this time, we were in September. September is the start of Autumn, but why…

As an Android developer, open-source software underpins everything I do. So it only seems fair I commit personal time in October (and throughout the rest of the year) to the open-source community. For the last few years, I’ve taken part in Hacktoberfest as it helps me focus on my open-source…