Codegen with KSP: A Farewell to Stubs

Hello, fellow Kotliners!

It's time for our next virtual get-together. This time, David Rawson brings his talk "Codegen with KSP: A Farewell to Stubs" on our stage.

Here is the abstract:

Say “farewell” to stubs and the resulting slow builds by using KSP. After explaining the need for annotation processors and meta-programming for handling cross-cutting concerns, we will build and test a toy annotation processor live on screen. This will give you the confidence to attempt more complex KSP codegen in your project.

For projects with legacy processors that can’t be rewritten, we will cover Google’s XProcessing library that has been used in Room and Epoxy. We will also explain multi-round processing and incremental processing (aggregate and isolating outputs).

About the speaker:
David Rawson has worked in some of Australia and NZ’s largest Kotlin shops and has presented at GDG DevFest Sydney, Chicago Roboto, and Droidcon APAC.

We are also constantly looking for speakers and talks. Please let us know and don't be shy, we are a friendly bunch and are happy to help you with your speaker career.

[jolly_joker]

Excellent presentation, thank you David!

[utkarshshukla]

Awesome video, I tried it the test cases run but I cannot see generated code in app module. I think it is somehow related to writeTo() function in provider