Márton Braun

The Uuid type in the standard library is now stable with Kotlin 2.4!

Work with v4 and v7 UUIDs, easily, with multiplatform support.

I made this overview video when the type was first introduced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5EOsE_eJLE

And then more API updates in 2.3: https://youtu.be/_6PSSkqwbp8?&t=399

As we visit conferences this year, we keep bumping into developers from well-known companies and finding out that they've successfully adopted KMP and shipped it to production, without us even hearing about it 🤯

Have you shipped something with KMP? Let us know in the replies!

The only YouTube Premium feature I need: turning off watch time on certain channels, so I can watch terrible guilty pleasure content without giving money to those channels.

There's something super relaxing about a train ride with a good read.

There's something super relaxing about a train ride with a good read.

A common typo.

Does anyone have a working solution for hiding the autocorrect/suggestions on the keyboard with Compose? Seems like the intended way is to use KeyboardOptions(autoCorrectEnabled = false), but it only works with certain KeyboardTypes, and none of them are just plain text 😕

It puts Back to the Future in a different light when you realize that 88 is in miles per hour, which is actually quite fast.

Friday night fun: migrated a great community library for particle effects from Jetpack Compose to Compose Multiplatform

https://github.com/PiotrPrus/ParticleEmitter/pull/19

"The desktop app is running with Hot Reload. Navigate to the Speakers screen, filter for JetBrains speakers, and check if any of their names is too long to fit on a single line. If yes, make the columns larger until they all fit."

Video at 3x speed.

Are you trying to convince decision makers in your company to use Kotlin? We have a great new landing page for that very scenario! It covers both Kotlin Multiplatform and backend development.

Check it out: https://kotlinlang.org/lp/kotlin-for-business/

✅ KotlinConf 2026: done.
📋 mDevCamp 2026: coming up next! Prague awaits, with another cozy train ride.

Doing final preparations on a workshop and a talk this week... ⏳

https://mdevcamp.eu/

A lot of things coming soon to the Kotlin YouTube channel - make sure you're subscribed to catch it all!

KotlinConfersations first (amazing interviews with people from the community), then talk recordings once they're processed!

@kotlin@youtube.com

Happy to share that we have folks from the language design team blogging about new features!

Check out this post by Alejandro about how Kotlin is moving to a safer, Name-Based Destructuring syntax:

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/05/the-road-to-name-based-destructuring/

No, no, and still no. Installing an app on an Android device you've purchased and fully own is not "sideloading". It's just... using your device. Nothing more. Let's not pretend even for a second that "sideloading" is a normal term to describe this.

Kotlin 2.3.20 is out, with cool new features like name-based destructuring. We also have a revamped structure for its what new page, check it out and tell us how you like it! https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew2320.html

They've put Room on the web with its KMP-packed 3.0 release!

Check out the sample here:
https://github.com/danysantiago/room-web-demo/

To persist across page reloads, swap from the `inMemoryDatabaseBuilder` to a regular `databaseBuilder` and specify a file name.