We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.3.30, a new bug fix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.3. The main areas of focus for this release have been around Kotlin/Native, KAPT performance, as well as improvements for IntelliJ IDEA.
You can find the complete list of changes in the change log. As always, we’d like to thank our external contributors. Now let’s dive into the details!
We are happy to announce the new and improved Kotlin/Native plugin for AppCode 2019.1! Enjoy working on Kotlin, Swift, and Objective-C projects for macOS and iOS inside the same IDE. New to AppCode? AppCode is macOS-only IDE from JetBrains designed specifically for iOS/macOS developers. It offers extensive support for Objective-C and Swift.
To try the plugin out open AppCode 2019.1 (EAP or Release), navigate to Preferences | Plugins and type Kotlin/Native in the Marketplace tab search to find and install the Kotlin/Native for AppCode plugin
The Kotlin/Native plugin for AppCode adds support for Kotlin/Native projects written in Gradle. For reusing code between iOS and Kotlin, we set up Kotlin/Native build to produce a framework which is used in Xcode. AppCode helps to configure an Xcode build for this scenario. We’ve added items to the New Project wizard to help us get started with a pre-configured project from scratch.
The highlighted project template configures everything. It creates and binds Kotlin/Native Gradle project to an iOS Xcode project, so that the Xcode build will call the Kotlin/Native build automatically, with respect to the selected target. The project will then be ready to work in both Xcode (without Kotlin support) and AppCode.
If you already have an existing project, you can add the Kotlin/Native Framework target by opening the Project Settings dialog (⌘;), clicking on the (+) button in the list of targets, and then selecting the Kotlin/Native | Framework option.
Note that you will need to click on the Import Gradle project or Import Changes link in AppCode after the project is opened.
The Open Gradle Project dialog will be shown. While the output of the compiler does not have any dependencies or virtual machine requirements, the compiler itself and the Gradle build system require the Java 1.8 or 11 runtime. Use the path to it to fill the Gradle JVM field. Check out the https://jdk.java.net/11 or https://adoptopenjdk.net/ for the best JRE, OpenJDK, or JDK distribution. By default on macOS, JVMs are installed to the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines folder.
Writing Kotlin/Native code for iOS and macOS is now supported in AppCode too for Kotlin Multiplatform projects. Open your Gradle project from build.gradle or build.gradle.kts files or use the project wizard to create a new one.
Just to remind you, the Kotlin/Native plugin for AppCode includes Kotlin language support, similar to what you have in CLion and IntelliJ IDEA. For example, there is code completion and quick doc dialogs for macOS or iOS classes which are also accessible directly from Kotlin/Native
Debugger support for Kotlin/Native, Swift, and Objective-C code is improved and included for applications running in an emulator, a device, or a macOS host
This is all the functionality that we have to share with you at this time. Give it a try, let us know what you think, and stay tuned for more exciting features to come as we continue our work on Kotlin/Native and multiplatform projects!
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:
As always, we’d like to thank our numerous external contributors. The complete list of changes for this release can be found in the change log. Let’s dive in!
Our Kotlin community is growing fast; the number of users has increased by almost 3 times this year. The feedback you give is very important to us both as newcomers who have just started using Kotlin in 2018 and as experienced Kotlin users.
If you’re still hesitant about using Kotlin, we would like to know why. Your responses are very appreciated and important to us too.
If you filled out the survey last year, thank you! To make sure we are keeping our information up to date it would be really helpful for us if you could, please, do it again this year. We’ve added a few new questions and modified the options available to respond with based on the last year’s results and the new technologies which have appeared in 2018.
Please, could you kindly give us five minutes of your time and fill out the following survey.
Thank you!
By providing us with your details, this is not automatic consent for us to use your name, application, or company name. Your information is kept strictly confidential. We will always ask for written confirmation from you before we would ever try to use it.
This is a guest blog post from Paul Merlin
software engineer for Gradle
The recently released Gradle 5.0 includes the Gradle Kotlin DSL v1.0 which is now ready for widespread use.
We want you to enjoy a build authoring experience with the benefits provided by Kotlin’s static type system in Intellij IDEA and Android Studio: auto-completion, smart content assist, quick access to documentation, navigation to source and context-aware refactoring.
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In case you missed it, you can watch Paul Merlin demonstrate these benefits in the Type-safe build logic with Gradle Kotlin DSL video from KotlinConf 2018.
If you prefer the flexibility and dynamic features of Groovy, that’s totally okay — the Groovy DSL will not be deprecated.
You can get started quickly by following the Creating New Gradle Builds guide. You can also follow one of the other guides like Building Kotlin JVM Libraries or Building Java Applications.
The Gradle Kotlin DSL Primer user manual chapter is the best place to start learning more: it will cover all the basics and answer most of your questions.
If you are working with an existing build using the Gradle Groovy DSL you’ll be interested in the Migrating build logic from Groovy to Kotlin guide.
Several community plugins now have Gradle Kotlin DSL snippets in their documentation: Spring Boot, Docker, Detekt, Kotlinter, APT, Android JUnit 5, Android Check 2, Android Play Publisher and the list goes on.
Last but not least, the Gradle documentation contains build script excerpts that demonstrate both the Groovy DSL and the Kotlin DSL. This is the best place to find how to all things with each DSL; and it covers all Gradle features.
Again, a big thank you to all who helped make this a reality!
Community involvement has been instrumental to reach 1.0. It is also crucial going forward.
We want to know what you think works well or poorly in the Kotlin DSL. Feedback on the IDE experience, logging, and everything in between is welcome. Please discuss through the Kotlin DSL issue tracker or the #kotlin-dsl channel on Gradle Community Slack (which you can join using this link).
The KotlinConf 2018 videos and their accompanying slides are all now available on the schedule on the website. In addition to this, there are two playlists on the JetBrains TV channel which cover day one and day two. The pictures from the event have been uploaded too. Check out the picture gallery, and try and find yourself, your friends, and your colleagues, in some of the biggest highlights from the event!
JetBrains is hosting two webinars on Kotlin 1.3 this December. Both events aim to explore the most common use cases and the challenges in adopting Coroutines, Kotlin/Native, and Multiplatform Projects.
Andrey Breslav will answer the questions you have on Kotlin 1.3 and our future plans during the Q&A session. To ask your questions, use #kotlinask_13 on Twitter or use YouTube chat during the webinar.
The recordings of the webinars are available on JetBrains TV: Kotlin Coroutines presentation by Roman Elizarov, Kotlin 1.3 Q&A with Andrey Breslav, and Kotlin Multiplatform projects (MPP), Kotlin/Native by Nikolay Igotti. The slides are available as well: Kotlin 1.3 overview, Coroutines, MPP, Kotlin/Native.
Both events are free to attend and will be broadcast on the JetBrains TV YouTube channel. To get the link, please register for the webinar and we will notify you by email.
As we work on Kotlin, we implement many features that help build idiomatic and high-performing APIs. We’ve been dreaming of seeing a Web framework that utilizes these features to the max. Today, we can finally say we’ve built that kind of framework! Please welcome Ktor, which has just reached 1.0.
Ktor is a Kotlin framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems. It is being created by the Kotlin team, and as such, it takes full advantage of the language in order to provide a great developer experience and excellent runtime performance.
Ktor is built from the ground up using coroutines, which make it possible to express complex asynchronous constructs as if they were simple sequential code. Coroutines are also quite efficient at runtime. In addition, the use of Kotlin features allows us to provide a domain-specific language (DSL) — a concise and developer-friendly API for configuring your application with no magic, just code.
Today we are releasing Kotlin 1.3 together with a set of accompanying libraries, build tools, and learning materials!
We develop Kotlin to be a good tool for all application developers, at all scales and on all platforms. In Kotlin 1.3 coroutines graduated to stable, making non-blocking code easy to read and write. Scalability has never been as approachable before! This release also brings Kotlin/Native Beta that compiles Kotlin code directly to native binaries. The multiplatform capabilities of Kotlin now cover all supported platforms so one can share business logic between such components as Android and iOS apps. Servers can share logic with web and mobile clients too, and multiplatform libraries make everyday tasks easily portable.
We’ll organize a series of webinars covering major features of 1.3. Subscribe here:
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.
Version 1.3 hits RC and brings a ton of new features and functionality.
Kotlin Coroutines are no longer experimental. Check out the Overview page with more information on how to get started
Take advantage of Kotlin’s code sharing abilities across platforms with Multiplatform Projects.
After several years of development, Kotlin/Native hits beta. Learn everything about Kotlin/Native and how it can help you target different platforms.
The online environment for trying out and learning Kotlin has a brand new look, new functionality, and an entire new section of “Kotlin by Example”.
Finally, whether you’re new to Kotlin or an existing user, check out the Learning Page for a list of resources available to you.
JetBrains and Google have created the Kotlin Foundation that was announced last year at Google I/O.
In Maven/Gradle: Add https://dl.bintray.com/kotlin/kotlin-eap as a repository for the build script and your projects. Use 1.3.0-rc-146 as the version number for the compiler plugin and the standard library.
In IntelliJ IDEA: Go to Tools → Kotlin → Configure Kotlin Plugin Updates, select “Early Access Preview 1.3” in the Update channel drop-down list, and then click Check for updates.
The command-line compiler can be downloaded from the Github release page.
On play.kotlinlang.org: Kotlin 1.3‑RC compiler is switched on by default.
Check out the recent blog post on 1.3 RC for more information.
Let’s Kotlin!
