Marco Gomiero

Closing the Kotlin DevRoom @ FOSDEM 2023

Other people: Nicola Corti Martin Bonnin Holger Steinhauer Sergei Rybalkin

Kotlin ecosystem is rapidly evolving over the years and 2022 was not an exception. Let's gather to recap everything that happened with Kotlin in the past year and to have a closer look at the language roadmap: from the new K2 compiler, to stable Kotlin Multiplatform and beyond.

Other people: Sergei Rybalkin

As mobile developers, we often see the backend world as something magical that "does things". But what if I tell you that you can easily build a backend even if mobile is your thing?

With this talk, I want to show how it is possible to bring your mobile knowledge (and shift it a little bit) to build a backend with Kotlin and Ktor. I will show how to structure the project, set up Dependency Injection, connect to a database and test everything to have a working backend ready to be deployed.

Welcoming participants to the virtual edition of the Kotlin DevRoom @ FOSDEM

Other people: Nicola Corti Martin Bonnin Holger Steinhauer Julien Salvi

Kotlin Multiplatform is an alpha feature that you can use to share code between different platforms. Even if it is in alpha stage, it is already possible to start using it in production applications.

In this talk, I will share the discussion that led us to Kotlin Multiplatform, and the following processes we put in place to start using it in production for an Android, iOS, and backend project. I will show you what parts of the code you can (gradually) start to share and how to integrate with existing standalone projects.