Welcome to Week 1 of the 12-Week Kotlin, Android & KMP Study Jam 🚀

In this session, we’ll begin our journey into modern Android and cross-platform development using Kotlin. This week focuses on building strong Kotlin fundamentals before moving into Android development and Kotlin Multiplatform later in the program.

Topics We’ll Cover

• Introduction to Kotlin

• Why Kotlin matters in modern development

• Variables (val vs var)

• Data types

• Functions

• Conditionals and loops

• Null safety basics

Practical Session

We’ll:

• Create our first Kotlin project

• Build a simple student profile program using Kotlin

Project Introduction

We’ll also introduce our semester project:

CampusPulse — a student events & community application that we’ll gradually build throughout the study jam using:

• Kotlin — a modern programming language officially supported for Android development and widely used for backend and cross-platform applications.

• Jetpack Compose — a modern toolkit for building native Android user interfaces declaratively using Kotlin.

• Ktor — used for fetching and sending data between the CampusPulse app and our backend API.

• Room — a local database library used for storing and querying offline data on Android devices.

• Kotlin Multiplatform — used to share code across multiple platforms and deploy CampusPulse as a cross-platform application.

📅 Date: Friday
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: Virtual Meeting

Come ready to learn, code, ask questions, and collaborate.