Topic: kotlin
JetBrains releases beta of its cross-platform Kotlin development tool
JetBrains, creator of the Kotlin programming language, has announced a beta program for a new SDK for cross-platform mobile development in Kotlin. Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile will allow developers to use a single codebase for creating both iOS and Android apps. According to JetBrains, logic elements can often fall out of sync when dealing with mutliple … continue reading
Kotlin 1.7.0 now available with alpha version of K2 compiler
The latest version of the Kotlin programming language is now available. Kotlin 1.7.0 includes updates like an alpha version of the K2 compiler, improvements to incremental compilation in Gradle, and more. In addition to performance improvements, the goal of the new K2 compiler is to speed up development of new features in the language, unify … continue reading
ShiftLeft CORE gets new vulnerability identification features
Security company ShiftLeft today announced the new release of its ShiftLeft CORE platform with the Velocity Update that has new features for identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities earlier in the software development life cycle. New features and capabilities include the ability to perform code analysis for Kotlin apps for mobile development, which is an early-stage … continue reading
JetBrains Compose Multiplatform reaches 1.0 release
JetBrains has announced that Compose Multiplatform, which is a declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached the release of version 1.0, making it now ready for use in production. Users can now create Kotlin apps on desktop and can build production-quality dynamic web experiences using Compose for Web’s stable DOM API with full interoperability with … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Altova releases version 2022 of MissionKit; CodeSee Maps now available; Kotlin support for protocol buffers; CyberRes announces Voltage SecureData services
Altova today announced the release of Version 2022 of its MissionKit desktop developer tools and server software. Included in this is support for the new Open Information Model (OIM) XBRL standard in multiple products and other XBRL related enhancements. The details of Altova’s XBRL-enabled software include XMLSpy offers complete XBRL and XBRL taxonomy development tools … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Grafana raises $220 million in funding, Kotlin 1.5.30 released, FusionAuth announces advanced threat detection
Grafana Labs announced $220 million in Series C that it said it will use to focus on accelerating the development of its open-source observability platform. The company also recently added k6, the company behind the open-source load-testing tool, and Pace.dev, a team known for creating tools with great developer experience, to the Grafana Labs family. … continue reading
JetBrains Academy launches Kotlin Basics
JetBrains Academy launched its new Kotlin Basics program as a free introduction for people getting into software development to get started on the most popular language for building Android apps. In this track, students will get familiarized with the language syntax, concepts, and libraries, as well as with the basics of object-oriented programming. Students will … continue reading
Google digs into modern Android development at I/O
Google is dedicated to providing a more modern Android development experience with new improvements, major updates, and new releases announced across the platform at this year’s Google I/O conference. This is the first virtual Google I/O event the company is hosting since the pandemic started last year. According to Karen Ng, product lead for Android … continue reading
Kotlin 1.5 available with JVM records, sealed interfaces, and more
The first major Kotlin release of 2021 is now here. Kotlin 1.5 adds JVM records, sealed interfaces, inline classes, and the new JVM IR compiler. JVM records are classes that carry a fixed set of values. Kotlin developers can now use a Kotlin class as a record in Java by making it a data class … continue reading
JetBrains releases CI/CD solution TeamCity Cloud
JetBrains today introduced TeamCity Cloud, a managed CI/CD service designed for DevOps teams that don’t want to deal with maintaining and scaling their own infrastructure. The cloud version is based on the original TeamCity and it shares a lot of the same functionality including integration with popular development tools, test intelligence and easy configuration, the … continue reading
Android Open Source Project now supports Rust
In an effort to ensure Android is secure and stable, Google has announced the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) will support Rust for developing the operating system. According to the company, memory safety bugs continue to plague code and memory-safe programming languages like Kotlin, Java and Rust help prevent these bugs from happening in the … continue reading
Google’s Jetpack Compose UI toolkit reaches beta
Google released its new UI toolkit Jetpack Compose, designed to make it easier to build native apps across all Android platforms. According to the team, Compose offers modern, declarative Kotlin APIs and is built to integrate with existing Android apps and Jetpack libraries. Google’s product manager Anna-Chiara Bellini and developer relations team member Nick Butcher … continue reading
