Victor Kropp, the Team Lead for the Toolbox team at JetBrains, shares the story of adopting Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform on desktop. The JetBrains Toolbox App is the single entry point for developing using JetBrains IDEs. It serves as a control panel for tools and projects, and makes installing and updating JetBrains IDEs quick and easy. Originally started in 2015 as a hackathon project, t

The nautical advent-ure continues with the third day of AOC 2021, which we will, of course, once more solve in Kotlin! This time, it will involve wrangling binary numbers in all sorts of ways. Check out the solution and a detailed explanation on YouTube, or follow along as we explain our solution in this blog post! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2PTnnOi8w Solving part 1 We’re on main

Compose Multiplatform by JetBrains, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached version 1.0, which makes it ready for production use! Here are a few highlights that we hope will make you as excited about the release of this framework as we are: On desktop, you can now create Kotlin apps with beautiful user interfaces quickly and efficiently.On the web, you can now build production-qual

It’s that magical time of the year! Supermarkets are stocking cookies, the smell of cinnamon and roasted chestnuts fills the air, and maybe you’ll even see some snowflakes fall in front of your window. It can only mean one thing: Advent of Code is coming! It starts December 1, when the first of twenty-five coding puzzles is unlocked. From then on, a new coding challenge comes out each day. Whe

Compose Multiplatform, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached Beta. This brings Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web another step closer to their stable release later this year. Here are the highlights: We are starting to stabilize APIs in preparation for the 1.0 release, and we’re explicitly marking experimental interfaces.Compose Multiplatform now references Android artifacts

Recently we published a blog post about a potential security issue caused by ua-parser-js, a dependent package that is used in the popular testing framework Karma, which in turn is the default choice for Kotlin/JS and Kotlin Multiplatform applications targeting JS. In the post, we recommended that you may want to consider locking packages you depend on to a certain version. Here, we want to sha

Today in “Idiomatic Kotlin”, we’re solving another Advent of Code challenge. We will be simulating, diagnosing, and fixing a small, made up game console! If you have ever wanted to implement your own virtual machine or emulator for an existing system like a game console or a retro computing device, you’ll find this issue particularly interesting! As usual, a number of Kotlin features will help

Today in “Idiomatic Kotlin”, we’re looking at day 4 of the Advent of Code 2020 challenges, in which we tackle a problem that feels as old as programming itself: input sanitization and validation. (more…)

Today’s release marks another step in our grand unified theory of UI development with Kotlin! We have a lot of news to talk about for our multiplatform UI efforts, including Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web. Today's announcement builds on Google's news last week that Jetpack Compose is now in 1.0 stable for Android. Here are the highlights: Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web are bei

More desktop UI goodies are coming your way! Milestone 4, the latest version of Compose for Desktop, comes packed with features to help you build even better Kotlin desktop applications with modern, declarative user interfaces based on Google’s modern toolkit. Visit the website In this post, we’ll walk you through some of the highlights of this release. They include: A new, experiment

kotlinx.serialization 1.2 is out! The latest version of our multiplatform serialization library brings a number of improvements – here are the highlights: JSON serialization is faster than ever before. Version 1.2 is up to twice as fast as previous versions when parsing JSON into type-safe Kotlin objects and turning Kotlin objects into their text representations. Kotlin 1.5 type system additi

First came the desktop, now comes the world wide web: Jetpack Compose advances to the browser! Today, we are releasing the first technology preview of Jetpack Compose for Web. While we keep actively developing Compose for Desktop toward its 1.0 release, this is the next chapter in our multiplatform story for Jetpack Compose, bringing Google’s toolkit for building reactive user interfaces with Kotl