​​Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too

Software Engineers Dustin Lam and Yigit Boyar join host Tor Norbye to chat all about Kotlin Multiplatform.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Defining KMP: Not a New Product, But Kotlin Plus
3:20 - The "Why": Benefits and Goals of KMP
6:17 - KMP vs. Other Cross-Platform Frameworks
6:41 - Sharing Business Logic: The Primary Use Case
9:18 - Practical Adoption: Turning an Existing Android App into KMP
13:15 - Addressing Platform-Specific Dependencies
28:56 - Library Support in Kotlin Multiplatform
35:56 - Developer Experience: Tooling and Integration
40:16 - Interoperability with iOS: Bridging the Gap
42:51 - KMP in Action: Google's Adoption Story
47:17 -The Long-Term Vision and Potential of KMP
51:30 - Behavior Consistency vs. Native Performance
55:32 - Try KMP and Get Involved!

Resources:

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Speakers: Tor Norbye, Dustin Lam, Yigit Boyar
Products Mentioned: Android

[IncompleteTheory]

KMP is absolutely marvelous. I really love it. The biggest gripes I had with it is though is the Gradle structure in a multi-module (and, obviously, multi-target) setup. You need to drill down deep into the Gradle APIs and this is really was a new can of worms for me. Also, KMP skills are not (yet) really sought after. If anything, companies seem to still prefer Flutter.

[Daaaaaaavid]

There are already many valid uses cases for using a kmp lib, for example when you want to parse something, encrypt/decrypt it, a communication protocol for example, mapping, etc., you write this in a kmp module, build a swift package, import it in your iOS app and just use it, no need for writing the same code in Swift anymore.

[developer.emad.mehrez]

Absolutely love kmp and cmp. We now need an official firebase sdk for kmp

[codeforandroid]

What is Google take on Flutter vs KMP/CMP, which one mobile developers should go for when going for multi platform support, and if its KMP, then is support for flutter going to end soon

[chax]

I love how Google is ahead in supporting KMP, I got into KMP from android dev, and I have loved it here.

[StreetsOfBoston]

36:00
Not even pure KMP, but debugging suspend call-stacks is still a nightmare on Android( Studio).
It's supported on other IntelliJ IDE for JVM, but in ART, it's still not there.

Please, please, Google, add a way to properly debug suspend call stacks! Thank you!

[mahiainti]

very nice and human podcast, was interesting to listen to

[smallbig]

KMP is awesome. Looking forward to more KMP compatible libraries (except Dagger :D).

[temvlas]

I don’t get why there is no Firebase SDK for Kotlin Multiplatform

[simplatek]

Once Jetbrains releases Kotlin to Swift support game over!

[yogourta]

I love it, we are using it and I am converting my personal apps to Compose multiplatform

[swapniljadhav]

If CMP is stable, what is the scope of KMP ?

[TravisBerthelot]

KMP is the best thing to happen since the Java platform in 1996.

[JoroVanev]

I'm not convinced that KMP will make any difference. It'll probably end up like Flutter and every other cross-platform solution we've seen so far. For me, Kotlin for Android apps development, Java for server-side development, and Swift for iOS development.

[Jose-kvuh]

It feels like Google is putting much into Kotlin and its babies. It might be the great future.