Kotlin Weekly #-515!

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Kotlin Multiplatform in Production: Two Real-World Use Cases from Booking.com (medium.com) Diego Gómez Olvera showcases some real world cases of using KMP in production at booking.com

In which order should Kotlin parameters be declared? (ivan.canet.dev) Ivan Canet suggests an optimal Kotlin parameter order: mandatory parameters, mandatory lambdas, vararg, optional lambdas, optional parameters, and finally, the primary trailing lambda.

Kotlin 2.4 Brings Swift-Style Collection Syntax [] (proandroiddev.com) Nav Singh highlights that Kotlin 2.4 introduces experimental collection literals, allowing for a more concise, Swift-style [] syntax for initializing collections.

Homologated: Publishing Your Kotlin Multiplatform Library to Maven Central | KMP Bits (medium.com) KMP Bits provides a comprehensive guide on publishing Kotlin Multiplatform libraries to Maven Central using the vanniktech plugin, detailing the necessary GPG signing, POM configuration, and Central Portal registration steps for a seamless release process.

How to Prevent Race Conditions in Coroutines (typealias.com) This article explores preventing race conditions in Kotlin coroutines by prioritizing the avoidance of shared mutable state or utilizing alternatives like Atomics, StateFlow, Mutex, and limitedParallelism.

Datadog delivers millions of in-depth performance insights with ProfilingManager (android-developers.googleblog.com) Datadog has integrated the Android 15 ProfilingManager API into its platform, enabling developers to capture high-fidelity production traces for faster, code-level diagnosis of complex performance regressions.

Isuru Rajapakse - Kotlin → C#; Experimenting with Cross-Runtime Interop (www.youtube.com) Isuru Rajapakse spoke at the GDG Melbourne February 2026 Meetup about Kotlin and C# interoperability.

What Nobody Told Us About KMP on iOS (www.youtube.com) In this new video from the KotlinConfersations, Huyen Tue Dao discusses with Suhyeon Kim how her team used KMP to build and ship a brand-new iOS app despite having no iOS developers on the team.

Learn Kotlin Hot Flows in Just 15 Minutes (www.youtube.com) Dave Leeds continues the series about Kotlin’s Flow API, this time looking at the two kinds of hot flows - SharedFlow and StateFlow

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Info Test Process Plugin (github.com) Gradle magician Iñaki Villar has released Info Test Process Plugin, a Gradle plugin that captures JVM metrics from test worker processes, including CPU, heap, GC, JIT, threads, and loaded classes.

KGML (github.com) A Kotlin Graphics Maths Library for Kotlin Multiplatform.

svg4kt (SVG For Kotlin) (github.com) This library is an implementation of the current second edition of the SVG 1.1 spec as a Kotlin DSL

bmc4j (github.com) bmc4j is a easy to use formal verification tool set for Kotlin (and Java).

KMPLogger (github.com) KMPLogger is a Kotlin Multiplatform logging library that provides a unified logging mechanism for applications targeting Android, iOS, and JVM.

KmpXMPP (github.com) Kotlin Multiplatform XMPP SDK for Android, iOS, and JVM/Desktop, with modular RFC/XEP support and Docker-backed interop tests.

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