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“Remind yourself what you’ve been through and what you’ve had the strength to endure.”

StoicallyTyped Newsletter
PHEW! Thanks to Labor Day this week only had 4 work days and that has been a giant blessing. The new job is kicking into high gear which is incredible but also very tiring. Learning new things really takes a lot of energy!
So what am I learning? Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM)! I’m very fortunate to be on a team that is using this incredible technology every day. I’ll most likely be including some great KMM finds in following issues as I learn more about it.
If you’ve got some conference budget to use definitely check out @ChicagoRoboto! There is an amazing lineup of speakers this year with some amazing sounding talks.
That’s it from me, lets get the goods. 👏

👾 Fun Stuff
Check out this thread from @Louis_CAD. He has updated refreshVersions!
Louis CAD
I'm just going to put this here.

Suffer from this? Look in the 🧵 below https://t.co/DW5AoKuT9h
Here’s a pro tip from Tyler McCraw! Find out how to do this in his replies!
Tyler McCraw
I finally decided to save myself one extra click for when I clean my project by adding the "Clean Project" action in Android Studio's navigation bar.

It only took 400,000 unnecessary clicks to make me want to do this. https://t.co/c0p1wO8aKm
📚 TL;DRs
Android 12 Beta 5 update, official release is next!
Android 12 Beta 5 update, official release is next!
The official release of Android 12 is soon!
This Beta update has all of the final app-facing surfaces.
Here’s a handy link to all behavior changes to be expected in Android 12!
android-developers.googleblog.com
Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0
Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0
KSP is out and its up to TWO TIMES FASTER than KAPT!
You can look forwards effect in your build times soon if you use libraries that do a lot of annotation processing.
How is KSP faster? KAPT needed to generate Java stubs from Kotlin code to work with Java based annotation processors. KSP doesn’t need to do this because it works as a Kotlin compiler plugin.
This also means that non-JVM based Kotlin can use KSP too!
android-developers.googleblog.com
Compose for Widgets is coming soon!
The reviews are in!
Glance seems to be a subset of Composables for use with Widgets!
android-review.googlesource.com
🛠 For Your Toolkit
refreshVersions: Life is too short to google for dependencies and versions
refreshVersions: Life is too short to google for dependencies and versions
refreshVersions helps Gradle users with the tedious manual work usually involved in adding and updating dependencies and their versions.
It was recently updated to make setup and usage even simpler!
github.com
👩🏻‍💻 Android Practice Question
How would you refactor this code using apply?
Are there other improvements you can make to it?
Try it in this playground and share your answer!
Send a link to a gist with your answer by replying to this email or the Tweet of this issue. Have your answer included in next weeks issue!
⭐️ Answer to Last Week's Question
In Kotlin, how does a Sequence differ from an Iterable Collection?
Can you think of any scenarios where a Sequence would perform better than an Iterable?
A Sequence is a different container type in Kotlin. It has the same functions as Iterables (like List) but handles these functions in a “multi step” way.
  • Basically an Iterable will do each chained function like filter, map, etc on the entire Iterable before moving to the next function in the chain.
  • A Sequence will do each function in the chain on each element of the Sequence before moving on to the next element.
When to use a Sequence:
  • Many or expensive operations to perform on a collection.
  • When processing can short circuit. (end early because a result is found)
  • The operation is stateless.
  • The collection is smaller.
When to use Iterable
  • When collecting the results (toList(), toSet())
  • The operation is stateful.
  • The collection is larger.
Stateful - other collections are needed to perform the operation
Stateless - no other collections needed to perform an operation
Try out this Kotlin playground to see the difference and let me know what you think!
💭 Stoicism x Tech
“Remind yourself what you’ve been through and what you’ve had the strength to endure.” — Marcus Aurelius
Wow I’m really needing this quote this week. I’ve been reading so much and learning so many things for my new job. It’s been a lot…
But I need to remind myself what I am capable of. I’ve gotten to this point because of my past trials and experiences. In a few months I will be facing new challenges and be able to look back on this time and through it gain strength.
Do this for yourself too! Remember what you have been through. Don’t take your learning or knowledge for granted. You too have faced challenging situations and have made it through them.
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Remember to stay hydrated and have a great week!
Thanks for reading!
- Matt ✌️
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