Kotlin Newsletter #51
Hello Kotliners! We hope you are having a good weekend. And in any case, we also hope that the next issue contributes to make your Sunday better. Enjoy it!

Learning Kotlin – Properties a first class language feature (fragmentedpodcast.com)
In this mini episode of Fragmented, Kaushik talks about his journey learning Kotlin as a newb. Given that Kotlin is most likely going to be the de-facto language for most Android developers, it makes sense to deepen our understanding of the language (as we have strived with Java over the years).

Kotlin Conventions - Operator overloading (simon-wirtz.de)
Kotlin supports a technique called conventions, everyone should be familiar with. For example, if you define a special method plus in your class, you can use the + operator by convention. In this article, Simon Wirtz shows you which conventions can be used and will provide some Kotlin code demonstrating the concepts of course.

How to animate on Android (proandroiddev.com)
In this article, Irina Galata tells you about different tools which could be useful for Android animations of any difficulty and their pros and cons. Of course, everything very Kotlinized.

Kotlin For Fun And Profit (stkent.com)
Stuart Kent recently gave a talk with a colleague titled "Kotlin for Fun and Profit" to help their coworkers become excited about and ready to use Kotlin in production code. If you find yourself in the same conjuncture, is never too late to take a look at this article.

Storing and retrieving data from Firebase with Kotlin on Android (medium.com)
Do you do Firebase, and do you do Kotlin? Many of us are living there. That is why having tutorials tackling both worlds are helpful. In this article, Nick Skelton teaches you how to store and retrieve data with Kotlin on Android.

Kotlin: the Upstart Coding Language Conquering Silicon Valley (wired.com)
We know that Kotlin has already conquered Silicon Valley, but know it replicates the epic conquering Wired! Whether this makes Kotlin a non-hipster language we do not care: it is cool to read the article in Wired

Roman Elizarov — Lock-Free Algorithms for Kotlin Coroutines (youtube.com)
Roman Elizarov, working on Kotlin at JetBrains, talks in this video about the basics of lock-free doubly-linked lists for Kotlin coroutines. This is the first part of the lecture, you can access the second part from the related videos.

Handsome codes with Kotlin (jlelse.eu) />In this article, Semih Bozdemir goes through some of the tricks with Kotlin that helps him to level up his programming game.