May 2021 Kotlin London Meetup

The May Kotlin London meetup takes place on Wednesday 15h May at 6 pm GMT (23:30 pm IST / 1 pm EST / 10 am PST).

We'll be welcoming Paulien van Alst and Kevin Galligan.

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] - Paulien van Alst - Embrace the Kotlin ecosystem at the back-end side

[~6.45 pm] - Kevin Galligan - KMM Kickstart For Android Developers

[7.30 pm] - Wrap Up & Close

------ Embrace the Kotlin ecosystem at the back-end side ------

Kotlin is becoming a mature and established back-end language. The maturity of a language is not only measured by its features but also by its community and ecosystem. Kotlin's ecosystem for server-side development is growing very fast. Coming from the Java development side, Spring would be a default fallback option to build your application. While Spring is also hopping on the Kotlin train, the rest of Kotlin's ecosystem is growing fast. More and more new frameworks are popping up implementing different point of views on how to build your service. Those new frameworks might change our ways of developing back-end applications. Let’s have a look out there!

--- Bio ---

Paulien is a passionate software engineer in love with readable, reliable and testable code, independent of the language or technology used. At OpenValue she works on helping companies setting up better software. As a Google Developer Expert in Kotlin (backend), she is giving Kotlin workshops and presentations about migrating from Java to Kotlin. As she can’t stop talking about software development, she is also co-hosting a podcast: Barcoding. In her free time, she likes to sport, cycling and swimming in particular.

Github: https://github.com/PaulienVa
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulienVanAlst

------ KMM Kickstart For Android Developers ------

Most people at a Kotlin meetup have probably heard about Kotlin Multiplatform but maybe haven't had a chance to try it out. Or maybe you have but getting started was a little frustrating. The platform has matured rapidly, so finding current info and the best place to start can be difficult. This talk will cover starter projects, necessary tools, some thoughts on architecture, and other necessary info for KMM, from the perspective of an Android dev wanting to take a look. This topic tends to be a bit different for everybody after the basics, so have your questions ready for the Q&A!"

--- Bio ---

"Kevin Galligan is the founding partner at Touchlab. He has 20 years of professional software development experience and has been working on Android since the first public platform release. Kevin is currently focused on developing and evangelizing Kotlin multiplatform native tools for the next generation of mobile development."