Platform Integrations in Kotlin Multiplatform with Russell Wolf

Talking Kotlin

Sebastian introduces the new co-host of the podcast, in a special episode recorded on location at droidcon New York! Joined by Russell Wolf, author of the multiplatform-settings library, we discuss the conference, different code-sharing approaches for Kotlin Multiplatform, and how to build great multiplatform libraries.

(0:00) Intro at home (2:02) Intro at droidcon NYC (4:23) Russell’s talk topic (8:14) Code sharing approaches (12:28) Wrapping native APIs (16:18) Attempted segue (16:35) Designing reusable APIs (18:02) Actual segue (18:14) multiplatform-settings (20:23) Supported platforms (24:05) SharedPreferences challenges (26:20) Observable preferences (29:51) Secure storage (30:55) Windows again (31:36) Library code as reference (33:15) Testable library code (35:05) Initializing a KMP library (38:18) Database libraries (40:55) Dependency injection (44:40) Outro

droidcon New York

• When sharing isn’t caring: Using platform-specific code in Kotlin Multiplatform (Russell’s talk)
• Compose Multiplatform on iOS: On the Road to Stable (Seb’s talk)
• Composing an API the *right* way (Márton’s talk)

The deprecated Accompanist WebView implementation for Jetpack Compose

russhwolf/multiplatform-settings on GitHub

Kotlin Multiplatform database libraries

• Room
• SQLDelight

Dependency injection libraries

• Koin
• Kotlin-inject

ViewModel for Kotlin Multiplatform

Hosts:

• Sebastian Aigner (Website)

• Márton Braun (Website)

Guest:

• Russell Wolf (GitHub, Twitter)