Systems architect, Software Libraries & SDKs author
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Joined June 2016
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andylamax retweeted
Wazazi wengi bado wanapiga simu kuuliza ‘Mtoto amepataje leo?’
Sasa hawahitaji tena.
Wanaweza kuona matokeo, attendance na taarifa moja kwa moja kupitia Academia
#academia #EdTech #SchoolStudent – at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
andylamax retweeted
📢 Kotlin 2.3.0 is out! Here are some of the highlights:
✅Language: More stable and default features, unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, and changes to context-sensitive resolution.
✅Kotlin/JVM: Support for Java 25.
✅Kotlin/Native: Improved interop through Swift export, faster build time for release tasks, C and Objective-C library import in Beta.
✅Kotlin/Wasm: Fully qualified names and new exception handling proposal enabled by default, and new compact storage for Latin-1 characters.
✅Kotlin/JS: New experimental suspend function export, `LongArray` representation, unified companion object access, and more.
✅Gradle: Compatibility with Gradle 9.0 and a new API for registering generated sources.
✅Compose compiler: Stack traces for minified Android applications.
✅Standard library: Stable time tracking functionality and improved UUID generation and parsing.
Learn more: ➡️ kotl.in/2-3-0
The App Store is never going to be the same
🔥 Compose Multiplatform for iOS is Stable and Production-Ready! 🔥
Build mobile apps faster with shared UI code, full control over native experiences, and the confidence to ship at scale.
Explore all the updates in Compose Multiplatform 1.8.0: 👇
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/20…
As an experienced combat lion, I can confirm that it is extremely hard to take down a tiger than a fellow lion. So, perhaps an average tiger would win over an average lion
andylamax retweeted
🎇 #ComposeHotReload is quite powerful.
Here are some demos showcasing what the most recent builds allow, when writing compose apps
A thread🧵
Msije mkasema hamkujua
Kotlin wameachilia version 2.1.0. katika vitu vizuri kwa Bongoland, tumetoa EAP Champion. Kongole sana bro @andy_lamax kwa kutubeba kwenye ramani.
Let's celebrate our very own!
Taarifa zaidi
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/20…
andylamax retweeted
Would be nice I think if AS/IJ showed commonMain source set first and then the platform specific ones. #KMP
andylamax retweeted
Less stress, more control. With Academia, managing school finances becomes seamless and straightforward. Say goodbye to the complexities of budgeting and tracking, and keep every aspect of your school running smoothly. #Academia #EleganceInEducation
Do you think developing websites could be more intuitive if browsers could be using a json like syntax for markup instead of xml like syntax???
Well well well
Android studio ladybug live up to name. Full of bugs 🐞
I ran out of IDE java heap (8 GB) twice and had to restart. Seems like memory leak.
Indexing is super slow 🐌
Git integration having issues with rebasing 🥲
Curious if others are also facing same?
#AndroidDev
andylamax retweeted
mwl! Je unafahamu kua Kwa kutumia Academia mchakato mzima wa mitihani umerahisishwa? yani kuanzia kwenye kutunga mtihani hadi kutoa matokeo. Sasa utakachofanya wewe ni kuhifadhi maswali kisha kwa maelekezo yako Academia itatunga mtihani, itapanga na kutoa matokeo.
Coming in hot
📢 The Kotlin 2.0.20 release is out! This version includes performance improvements and bug fixes for Kotlin 2.0.0, where we announced the Kotlin K2 compiler as Stable. Highlights include:
✅ The data class copy function will have the same visibility as the constructor
✅ Static accessors for source sets from the default target hierarchy are now available in multiplatform projects
✅ Concurrent marking for Kotlin/Native has been made possible in the garbage collector
✅ The ExperimentalWasmDsl annotation in Kotlin/Wasm has a new location
✅ Support has been added for Gradle versions 8.6–8.8
✅ A new option allows sharing JVM artifacts between Gradle projects as class files
✅ The Compose compiler has been updated
✅ Support for UUIDs has been added to the common Kotlin Standard Library
Try it out ➡️ kotl.in/2.0.20
Things going on at #GoogleIODar24
