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Starting 2023 (A New Hope)

I’m particularly glad to remark that 2023 is starting with a newfound energy - and new habits.

Rebase Key Bindings for Sublime Merge

Editing Git history (or Interactive Rebasing) in Sublime Merge is a joy. And can be even better, with some keybindings!

Understanding The Basics of Kotlin Multiplatform Projects with Kotlin 1.3

Kotlin Multiplatform: testing a shared module supporting iOS and Android

Conceiving your app as modular can be greatly beneficial to your codebase’s health. In particular, designing a separation between your view and business logic can decrease the coupling between your layers and improve maintainability as well as testability. Tests are indeed your app’s best friends, as they can, at the same time, verify the code you wrote works as intended and act as a specification for the implemented functionality.

Sharing frameworks between iOS and Android with Kotlin Multiplatform

Today we’ll see how to use Kotlin code to write a cross platform module that can be shared between an iOS and an Android app. Since the support for building iOS frameworks, introduced with Kotlin/Native 0.5 in December 2017, it has been possible to use the same code for creating libraries for both Android (.aar) and iOS (.framework). A couple of months later, Kotlin/Native 0.6 officially supports this use case, thanks to the support of Multiplatform, a new functionality focused on sharing code across platforms, introduced in the version 1.2 of the Kotlin language.