Kevin Galligan
President of Touchlab, a mobile experts shop https://touchlab.co. Host of NYC Android Meetup and Droidcon NYC. Future proofer.
unfold_lessunfold_more Intro to Kotlin Multiplatform
Key takeaways
- How Kotlin targets more than the JVM
- What the "Multiplatform" plugin is and how it works
- How to get started writing shared code for the JVM, Web, and Native platforms
- Where the platform is and where it's going in the near future.
Kotlin is generally known as a JVM language, and by many, as "Android's Swift," but it is so much more. JetBrains has planned Kotlin to be a portable language that can be rendered to many different platforms. Not just the JVM. These include Javascript and Native, which is an llvm compiler capable of outputting to iOS, Windows, Linux, Web assembly, and many other platforms. In this session, we'll cover: - Kotlin's target compilers and how they work - How the "Multiplatform" plugin meshes these together - An overview of the major tools and libraries - How to get started and next steps
unfold_lessunfold_more Kotlin Multiplatform Library Development
Key takeaways
- Learn the basics of library development for Kotlin Multiplatform.
- How to pick platforms to deploy to and how to configure multiple source sets.
- How to approach wrapping existing platform libraries and writing from scratch.
- Where and how to deploy libraries.
One of the most important parts of any software ecosystem is the community support and library development. Kotlin as a platform is certainly no exception. For developers looking to get involved in the open-source world, this is a great time do jump in. While simple libraries are fairly straightforward, there are many details involved in implementing significant libraries. Where to use expect/actual? How to wrap existing libraries? How do handle testing, CI, publishing, etc. There's a lot you need to know, and the platform is changing fast.
