
Talking Kotlin
A bimonthly podcast that covers the Kotlin programming language by JetBrains, as well as related technologies.
Latest episodes

Jun 7, 2021 • 35min
Talking Kotlin: Realm for Kotlin Multiplatform
In this episode, we’re talking to Nabil Hachicha and Claus Rørbech from the Realm team about the Realm Kotlin Multiplatform SDK project.

May 12, 2021 • 41min
Contributing to the Kotlin Compiler
In this episode we talk to Jeffrey Van Gogh and Mads Ager from Google about the Kotlin compiler, covering everything from its basic structure and the infrastructure for building Android apps to new symbol processing approaches with KSP.

Apr 29, 2021 • 33min
Teaching Kotlin at Stanford, with Rahul Pandey
In this episode, We talk to Rahul Pandey an Android engineer at Facebook and a lecturer at Stanford about the specifics of his approach to teaching Kotlin for Android development at Stanford.

Apr 12, 2021 • 28min
MVIKotlin and Decompose with Arkadii Ivanov from Bumble
Arkadii Ivanov, Android Engineer at Bumble Engineering and Google Developer Expert for Kotlin takes us on a journey through his open-source projects MVIKotlin and Decompose. Find out about the Model-View-Intent architecture pattern, learn how Decompose helps write better declarative multiplatform user interfaces with Kotlin, and discover that time travel is possible – at least for debugging.

Mar 14, 2021 • 43min
Kotlin Multiplatform with John O’Reilly
In this episode, guest John O'Reilly shares his multiplatform development journey. John takes us back to his roots, discusses his experiences with developing for multiple platforms, explains how Kotlin Multiplatform helps with productivity, and shares his open source projects.

Mar 1, 2021 • 35min
Catching Up With Roman Elizarov
In this episode, we talk to the new Kotlin Project Lead, Roman Elizarov, who tells us all about the Kotlin team, their areas of focus, and their plans for the future.

Jan 26, 2021 • 34min
JAI Conversational Framework
We chat with Vitaly about JAI Conversational Framework - a tool that allows you to build a conversational interface to your application without the need to use any of the big players on the market. We dicuss the benefits to the approach and why they chose Kotlin.

Dec 24, 2020 • 45min
Compose for Desktop
We sit down to talk to Nikolay Igotti, who's now leading the efforts of Compose for Desktop at JetBrains. We talk about why the need for a new UI framework for Desktop, how Compose for Desktop works, and what's planned for the future.

Dec 14, 2020 • 47min
Kotlin in Space
We chat with Sergey and Max about their use of Kotlin in Space. We cover the frameworks that they use, some of which were born out of Space. We discuss their adoption of Multiplatform before Kotlin Multiplatform even existed, as well as why they chose Kotlin and the benefits it provides them, along with the main issues they encounter.

Nov 26, 2020 • 36min
apollo graphql
We chat with the folks working on the Apollo library for GraphQL. We discuss what GraphQL is, where Apollo fits in to the equation, and why they decided to provide multiplatform support using Kotlin.
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