Kotlin Meetup - GraphQL & Async/Await

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Talks:

Integrating GraphQL with Kotlin - Mohit Sarveiya

GraphQL is a query language for APIs developed by Facebook. It allows you to retrieve only the data you need by sending a GraphQL query on the client side. In this talk, I will show you how you could integrate GraphQL with Kotlin on the server. I will demonstrate how to use the Java implementation of the GraphQL specifications with Kotlin extensions. Through examples, I will show the benefits of GraphQL versus a traditional REST API implementation.

Async/Await for Android - Josh Williams

The Async/Await library by MetaLab, which is built upon coroutines introduced in Kotlin 1.1, makes async tasking simple and easy. We will be looking into using Async/Await for asynchronous operations in Kotlin and the many different ways to chain and pair your async operations to create a beautiful high performing app. We will also look into the syntax and comparative benefit over using other standard ways to perform async operations.

Attendance is limited. There are only 75 spots available. Be sure to RSVP!

Speaker bios:

Mohit Sarveiya is an Android Developer at Percolate Inc. He was a backend engineer prior to joining Percolate. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University with background in Pure Mathematics and Computer science.

Josh Williams is a mobile developer passionate about writing efficient and beautiful apps for both iOS and Android. Kotlin has been an exciting addition to his tool chain of languages which help achieve this goal in both personal projects and in his role at The Food Network as a senior android engineer for their In The Kitchen app.