Reviewed articles

Kotlin Reflection: Type references

Using type references, with practical example of random value generator.

Marcin Moskała10/30/2023

Kotlin Reflection: Class references

All the essential aspects of class references, and a practical object serialization example.

Marcin Moskała10/23/2023

Kotlin Reflection: Method and property references

The general hierarchy of Kotlin reference classes, and details about method and property references.

Marcin Moskała10/16/2023

Implementing Multiplatform Kotlin Mobile

How in Kotlin we can implement Android and iOS projects with shared logic.

Marcin Moskała9/25/2023

Implementing Multiplatform Kotlin library

How in Kotlin we can use multiplatform capabilities to distribute the same code to multiple platforms.

Marcin Moskała9/18/2023

Using Multiplatform Kotlin

The essence of using multiplatform Kotlin capabilities and definition common elements.

Marcin Moskała9/11/2023

Kotlin and Java interoperability: Traps and gotchas

The parts of Kotlin and Java interoperability that might be surprising or counterintuitive.

Marcin Moskała8/21/2023

Kotlin and Java interoperability: Useful annotations

Learn about useful Kotlin annotations, that decide that it is compiled to on JVM.

Marcin Moskała8/14/2023

Kotlin and Java interoperability: Properties and annotations

Kotlin property is Java getter, setter, field and possibly more. So what to do, when you need to annotate or use a specific JVM element?

Marcin Moskała8/7/2023

Kotlin and Java interoperability: Types

See surprising transitions that happens on types when you interoperate between Kotlin and Java.

Marcin Moskała7/31/2023

Kotlin Contracts

Practical review of Kotlin Contracts - a feature we often use, without knowing about it.

Marcin Moskała7/3/2023

Map as a property delegate

How do we use Map as a property delegate, and why the result of a famous puzzler should not be surprising.

Marcin Moskała5/8/2023

Observable and Vetoable delegates

What are observable and vetoable delegates, and what are their real-life use cases.

Marcin Moskała5/2/2023

Lazy property delegate

What is lazy delegate, and what are its real-life use cases.

Marcin Moskała3/27/2023

Property delegation

What is property delegation, how does it work, and how can we implement our custom property delegate.

Marcin Moskała3/20/2023

Scope functions

What is let, also, apply and with, and how to use them in our applications.

Marcin Moskała9/23/2022

DSL type-safe builders

How to define type-safe DSL builders in Kotlin.

Marcin Moskała9/9/2022

Lambda expressions

Let's learn how to use lambda expressions, what special support they have, and what traps they generate.

Marcin Moskała8/26/2022

Function references

How do we reference functions in Kotlin, to replace lambda expressions. All functions, including constructors, getters, extensions and more.

Marcin Moskała7/29/2022