Kt. Academy grows quickly and has more and more different authors, reviewers and community members. Although we enjoy writing good articles, we also think about how to satisfy other needs of the Kotlin community. So we identified some important problems and we’ve decided to help to solve them:

It is not easy to stay in touch with news about Kotlin — you can observe on Twitter, but it is time-consuming and filled with noise. Also, blogs mostly describe new ideas and solutions of some problems instead of giving news about the state of technology. What we would prefer is a small set of important news about Kotlin.

We like challenges and we want to feel that we develop in programming — this need can be satisfied by some puzzlers or portal with programming challenges. Although puzzlers are normally collected in some Github repos, searching for them is not something we would do during a metro ride or five minutes waiting. Similarly, programming challenge portals are more like the big game instead of a short way to fill 5 minutes during a ride. We would prefer a small app that gives new puzzler once for a while.

Since Kt. Academy already had the portal that was made as an example multiplatform Kotlin application, we discovered that this two functionalities can be easily added there! This is why today we are proud to announce that Kt. Academy now supports both news from Kotlin, and puzzlers. Here is a link:

How does it look like:

Puzzler with shown answer on Kt. Academy portal

Proposing

Everyone has something to offer. This is why we’ve decided to allow everyone to propose infos or puzzlers (as well as to submit articles). The procedure is very simple. You just need to use FAB in the right-bottom corner:

Then you will be able to use the form to submit your news or puzzler. Once submitted, it waits for our acceptation. Don’t worry, we will confirm it and publish or decline in less than 24h ;)

Open-source

Yes, the project is open-source and you can find it on Github. Feel invited for contribution :) If you look for something to do, check out our Waffle.

Tips how to use it