Muhammad Hashim on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDK

Coroutines on the RaspberryPi (Pi4J-Kotlin)

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:05:29 +0000

If you didn’t know already, Pi4J has had a Kotlin DSL for quite some time now.

And I’m here to announce the latest release v2.4.0 with a sack of additions and to tell you about all the good stuff that’s been added since the first release .

Coroutines {#h2-0-1-coroutines}

If the pi4j { ... } wasn’t good enough for ya, and you want to use coroutines instead of weaving fat threads on your precious precious Pi, you can now use the new pi4jAsync { ... } block—It can do everything pi4j { ... } does + you can run suspended functions within.

Gossips: An Event-Bus in a Chatty Neighbourhood

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:35:32 +0000

In this article, we’ll tackle a common issue: simple communication between system components. With a slightly controversial, themed, domain-driven design.

Though this post has nothing to do with Android, we need a context where an Event-Bus is needed. And boy oh boy is it needed in Android! And we’ll use this as an excuse to write an Event-Bus.

I chose an analogy for the entire thing: Gossips;\

It fits with the nature of the library, and the way it’ll be used. A global pub-sub component to enable cross-component communication.

Kotlin on the RaspberryPi (Pi4J-Kotlin)

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:37:18 +0000

Pi4J is considered the project that brought the JVM to the RaspberryPi.

It has been up for more than a decade allowing developers to write sophisticated, high-level, yet simple software on the RaspberryPi.

And we’re glad to make it even more simpler and powerful!

For quite some years now Kotlin has been a most welcome language in the JVM ecosystem and the modern development toolchain.

Many factors led to this great reality, most notable to me is Kotlin’s non-disruptive integration and seamless developer experience.