We’re happy to announce a new plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that will provide you a better experience when it comes to finding and managing dependencies in your JVM projects. And if you’re a Kotlin developer, you’ll be getting an additional bonus! Finding the right package You’re starting a new project, or working on an existing one, and you want to make some HTTP calls… Hmm. Which library is the one that most folks are using? Let me Google it. Well there’s a bunch of them.  StackOverflow tells me this is the best and greatest. Wonder if it’s still maintained. Let me look at the Stars and F

A Case Study of the JetBrains Training Partnership Instil is a software development company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They specialize in mobile / cloud projects, consultancy, and training. Their training department is made up of 3 full-time and 4 associate trainers, all of whom have at least 15 years of experience in developing, coaching, and consultancy.  At JetBrains,  we're very excited to have partnered with Instil for our Kotlin Certified Training Program. The following post, which tells their Kotlin story, has been written by Garth Gilmour from Instil. Instil first became in

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.3.20, a new bug fix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.3. In addition to improvements to the compiler and IDE, this version: Allows running Gradle tasks in parallel within a single project Allows building multiplatform projects via Gradle Kotlin DSL Brings improvements for inline classes Introduces a separate command line tool for Kapt Enables incremental compilation for Kotlin/JS by default Brings improvements to Kotlin/Native As always, we’d like to thank our numerous external contributors. The complete list of changes for this release can be

In today's keynote at KotlinConf 2018 we made a series of announcements around releases, resources, and other things we've made available. For your convenience below is a brief summary of the announcements with the corresponding links for more information. Kotlin 1.3 hits RC Version 1.3 hits RC and brings a ton of new features and functionality. Coroutines Kotlin Coroutines are no longer experimental. Check out the Overview page with more information on how to get started Multiplatform Projects Take advantage of Kotlin's code sharing abilities across platforms with Multiplatform Proje

We're very excited to be able to live stream KotlinConf 2018. During the entire two days, we will be broadcasting an entire track. The keynote will kick off at 9 am CEST. Thursday, October 4 Time Session 09:00-10:00 Keynote – Andrey Breslav 10:15-11:00 A Multiplatform Delight – Jake Wharton, Alec Strong 11:15-12:00 Type-safe build logic with Gradle Kotlin DSL – Paul Merlin 13:00-13:45 Safe(r) Kotlin Code - Static Analysis tools for Kotlin – Marvin Ramin 14:00-14:45 Annotation Processing in a Kotlin World – Zac Sweers 15:15-16:00 Exploring the Ko

If you haven't heard, KotlinConf 2018 is taking place in Amsterdam, October 3rd-5th! With just over 2 weeks left for the Call for Papers to close, this is your chance to share your Kotlin knowledge and story with the community at the Kotlin event of the year! Topics we'd love to hear about Kotlin/Native. Whether you're targeting iOS, creating native applications for macOS, Windows, Linux, or even targeting embedded. Multiplatform and code sharing. Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming. Frameworks and Libraries in Kotlin. Of course, these are just some of the topics. We also want to kno