January 2021 Online Kotlin Meetup

Our first 2021 event is Wednesday 13th January from 6 pm GMT (23:30 pm IST / 1 pm EST / 10 am PST).

We're welcoming Jorge Rego and Jorge Castillo.

They've both got great talks that we'll be live-streaming to the Kotlin London Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kotlinlondon/.

Sign up, spread the word, BYOB and pizza, and join the conversation!

Schedule:

[6.00 pm] - Welcome

[6.05 pm] - Jorge Rego
Architecture proposal to build servers with Ktor

[~6.45 pm] - Jorge Castillo
Functional Android

[7.30 pm] - Wrap Up

------ Jorge Rego ------

Kotlin is growing really fast and new tools and libraries are available to code with this language.
As an Android developer, I've always wanted to be able to do a full stack project, connecting my mobile apps with a server, and this is where Ktor came to the rescue. Documentation is there and also many disconnected examples, but when we want to get into business, we need a maintainable and clean architecture if we want to succeed.

--- Bio ---
I'm an Android developer at Proxy.com and the owner and full stack developer of MySecretSantaApp.
In my free time I'm a clean code evangelist, Kotlin lover and Medium writer.

------ Jorge Castillo ------

In this talk, we will learn how to seamlessly integrate the functional programming paradigm with our Android architecture to get the most out of both worlds.
We'll cover concepts like declarative programming + runtime optimization, integration of functional effects with Jetpack Compose, error handling strategies, data validation, concurrency, safe resource handling to avoid memory leaks, Streams, and much more.

--- Bio ---
Hey, I'm Jorge 👋 an Android and Kotlin GDE working for 47 Degrees. I'm lately very focused on Android and Functional Programming, trying to bring both worlds together in reasonable and pragmatic ways.