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While I agree where Kotlin is going with their multi platform tooling is great, I do think it’s just one more option in an already good bag of options. And a st

While I agree where Kotlin is going with their multi platform tooling is great, I do think it’s just one more option in an already good bag of options. And a strong one at that. My one observation though is that for many (the majority?) of mobile apps the UI layer is the vast majority of the app, easily 70-80%. Especially for apps where the business logic is calling a http api, which most CRUD type apps are. For these a cross platform toolkit that abstracts away ui differences so you only have to build it once is a massive plus.

vanilla_nut 5y ago
KMM shows promise for writing the same db/network logic for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. (less so on desktop, but it does work) Realized expectations give you a good way to extend that underlying layer a bit further. But you’re totally right — in the end, you still need to undetstand iOS and Android development, UI in particular, to make it work. It also doesn’t help that KMM is currently a buggy mess, Android Studio has a million issues with it, and the documentation is sparse to nonexistent for completely pedestrian use cases (good luck writing tests for anything). I hope it shapes up soon though.