Platform Integrations in Kotlin Multiplatform with Russell Wolf

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.

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

Timestamps

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