Kotlin Multiplatform - Ins and Outs

Basics of Kotlin Multiplatform and how it works.

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1. Kotlin Multiplatform Ins and Outs
2. 1. History of Cross-platform - 5 mins 2. Kotlin Multi-platform - 5 mins 3. Live Demo - 5 mins 4. KMP at Uber - 5 mins 5. QnA - 5 mins Agenda
3. How Cross-platform works Source: Youtube
4. The era of Cross-platform frameworks Source: Youtube
5. The era of Cross-platform frameworks Source: Youtube
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14. Live Demo
15. 1. Bug fixes deployed faster. 2. New features and enhancements deployed faster. 3. General increase in developer efficiency. 4. Reach a wider audience. 5. Native performance, interop, UX, Developer experience. Benefits of KMP
16. 1. Concurrency 2. Locale 3. Date/Time 4. File I/O 5. Networking Shortcomings of KMP
17. Source: Jetbrains
18. Can Uber make use of KMP too?
19. Problems with writing same code differently 1. RIBs is written differently for Android and iOS. 2. Plugins and experimentation code is duplicated. 3. Differences across platforms. Eg. Analytics UUIDs. 4. Views sometimes have logic. 5. More time and resources required for building features.
20. Making Code-sharing a reality at Uber 1. Onboard Android and iOS teams on Kotlin. 2. Migrate business logic from Java to Kotlin. 3. Build shared-libraries like RIBs and MMDF in Kotlin. 4. Make infrastructure (CI/CD/SQ) KMP ready. 5. Make KMP work with buck/bazel or migrate to gradle.
21. What’s coming? Source: Twitter
22. Learn and Contribute Join #kotlinlang on Slack
23. References • https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mobilecrossplatform • https://vimeo.com/371460823 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oulHKSUAuCk • https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJLLPBgtiD4&list=PLQ176FUIyIUY6SKGl 3Cj9yeYibBuRr3Hl • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAc6rDQVQqg
24. Thank You! Chetan Sachdeva, Uber