Talking Kotlin

We catch up with Ken on what he's been doing lately and discuss his new book around Kotlin recipes, called Kotlin Cookbook. We also discuss where one should draw the line when teaching concepts and how often to dive into the details. We also briefly touch up on his new book!

We chat with the folks from ISEL about their gradual adoption of Kotlin, starting from Android to now having a course on teaching programming with Kotlin.

We chat with Joe about the work he's done in his spare time to create an accessible guitar, to teach those that are challenged. A very inspiring tale of working to make things better for others in this world.

We chat about Graphics Programming on Android and how and where Kotlin can help, availability of Kotlin libraries and where and if code sharing could help with graphics programming when targeting multiple platforms. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down to talk to Josh about coroutines, its usage in Android, the differences with RxJava and whether we can combine both technologies. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

In this episode we chat to Ana Redmond about her adoption of Kotlin/Native for multi-platform development very close to the time it was announced. She went fully onboard with the technology and managed to develop and release a successful educational game. Very inspiring story of someone that went from not knowing Kotlin or Swift, to release a product in a short span of time. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down with Annyce to discuss the use of Kotlin features and whether or not we're often abusing these in detriment of creating maintainable code. We chat about code review practices, design principles and even the DLR principle! We even talk about Googling. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down with Florina from Google to talk about everything Kotlin, from Android and what it means to be Kotlin First, to the series of Kotlin/Everywhere events that JetBrains and Google have collaborated on, and even touching on code reviews. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with the folks from Flux around their use of Kotlin on the backend, to develop a service that replaces paper receipts. We talk about the technology they're using (Dropwizard), any challenges faced, both from a technical perspective as well as a business on in adopting Kotlin as a start-up company. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat to David about sequences in Kotlin - what they are, how and when to use them, and the performance implications that they have over regular collections. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.