Kotlin Weekly (Articles)

Introducing the Kotlin Benchmark for AI Coding Agents

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

JetBrains has launched the Kotlin Benchmark, a new official, repository-level software engineering benchmark built on Multi-SWE-bench to evaluate how reliably AI coding agents can navigate existing codebases and generate validated patches for Kotlin projects.

The History of Kodee, Kotlin’s Mascot

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

This article details how JetBrains used community surveys, anthropological focus groups, and iterative design to evolve Kotlin's mascot from a rigid robot sketch into Kodee, a beloved and expressive developer icon.

Kotlin Comes to BlueJ

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ, one of the most established environments for teaching introductory object-oriented programming.

Inside SubcomposeLayout: Jetpack Compose’s Most Misunderstood API

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A deep dive into Jetpack Compose's SubcomposeLayout API, explaining why executing composition during the measurement phase is performance-heavy and how to correctly leverage it for constraint-dependent UIs.

How to Structure a Real Kotlin Multiplatform App Before You Write Your First Feature

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The KMP-Umbrella-Template isolates third-party vendor SDKs from shared features using a decoupled API-SPI-Impl-Provider structure and compile-time dependency injection to cleanly scale Kotlin Multiplatform projects.

Introducing the Composables CLI and MCP server

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Composables CLI is a command-line tool for creating native apps and modules with Composables UI wired in from the start.

Another Way to KMP: Shared Renderers

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gabor Berenyi explains an inverted Kotlin Multiplatform approach where a custom 3D galaxy renderer lives inside commonMain, isolated from platform graphics APIs via a thin 34-call abstraction interface.

Going Beyond Firebase: Performance Monitoring for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform with Kotzilla

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Miguel Valdes Faura highlights the Kotzilla Platform's ability to automatically diagnose and fix Android and KMP performance bottlenecks using Koin-level visibility and an AI-powered MCP server, bypassing Firebase's need for manual tracing.

Cut build time by 70% in your KMP projects with the Dependency Analysis Gradle Plugin

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tony Robalik highlights how Kraken Technologies used the Dependency Analysis Gradle Plugin to cut KMP build times by 70% and sync times by 85% by identifying and removing unused or misclassified JVM and Android dependencies across 600 modules.

In Conversation With the Golden Kodee Winners

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

JetBrains interviews the inaugural Golden Kodee Community Award winners from KotlinConf 2026 to discuss their projects, background, and advice for the community.

Grants program

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Kotlin Foundation has opened applications for its 2026 grants program until July 14, 2026, offering financial support to open-source libraries, tools, and frameworks with a strong emphasis on multiplatform, AI, and large language model solutions.

Kotlin Notebook Sunset

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Starting from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, JetBrains will sunset Kotlin Notebook as a product and will no longer maintain it. Check out the announcement in this link.

Design a screen, get a Clean Architecture feature — Spec-Driven Development that keeps AI-generated KMP code from drifting

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ali Sadeghi introduces KMPilot, an open-source template built on top of Claude Code that leverages AI agents and living markdown specifications to enforce disciplined Clean Architecture and prevent codebase drift in AI-generated Kotlin Multiplatform features.

Kotlin tricks: Non-exhaustive enums

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Did you know it's possible to create non-exhaustive enums? Ivan Clovis Canet explains it in this article.

Detekt Explained: Enhance Kotlin Projects with Static Analysis

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Wilfried Mbouenda Mbogne introduces detekt, explaining how its use of the Kotlin compiler's Program Structure Interface enables deep structural analysis and custom architectural guardrails that go beyond simple formatting linters.

Switching a million lines of code from Java threads to Kotlin coroutines, by rewriting three files

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Adrian Blanco details how Framna Denmark migrated a massive Android codebase from Java threads to Kotlin coroutines overnight by rewriting just three core framework files using custom dispatchers and thread-local state replication.

How to use Koin Compiler in a Multimodule Project?

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gabriel Bronzatti Moro demonstrates how to migrate a Compose Multiplatform multi-module project from KSP-based Koin Annotations to the new native K2 Koin Compiler using a clean, 30-line custom Gradle convention plugin.

Shipaton - world’s largest mobile hackathon is back

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Shipaton is back. This August and September, we're inviting builders from all corners of the globe to ship brand-new apps and compete for a share of over $1 million worth of prizes.

Kotlin Weekly (Articles)

Introducing the Kotlin Benchmark for AI Coding Agents

The History of Kodee, Kotlin’s Mascot

Kotlin Comes to BlueJ

Inside SubcomposeLayout: Jetpack Compose’s Most Misunderstood API

How to Structure a Real Kotlin Multiplatform App Before You Write Your First Feature

Introducing the Composables CLI and MCP server

Another Way to KMP: Shared Renderers

Going Beyond Firebase: Performance Monitoring for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform with Kotzilla

Cut build time by 70% in your KMP projects with the Dependency Analysis Gradle Plugin

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In Conversation With the Golden Kodee Winners

Grants program

Kotlin Notebook Sunset

Design a screen, get a Clean Architecture feature — Spec-Driven Development that keeps AI-generated KMP code from drifting

Kotlin tricks: Non-exhaustive enums

Detekt Explained: Enhance Kotlin Projects with Static Analysis

Switching a million lines of code from Java threads to Kotlin coroutines, by rewriting three files

How to use Koin Compiler in a Multimodule Project?

SPONSORED - Flow in Kotlin Coroutines Cheat Sheet: a practical PDF reference for Kotlin developers

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