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Virtually all native mobile teams integrate Kotlin Multiplatform by publishing Xcode binaries, usually with SPM. This is generally easy to integrate, but prevented iOS developers from browsing or debugging Kotlin. Today we have fixed that situation.

Adaptive Layouts is a way of adapting your UI to fit different display sizes on Android, and it's now available for Compose Multiplatform.

KMMBridge is a Gradle plugin that publishes Kotlin Multiplatform Xcode Framework dependencies for Swift Package Manager and CocoaPods. The 1.1.0 release is a significant internal refactoring to support ongoing improvements and maintainability.

The 2.0.5 update for Kermit is out now and features various updates to OSLogWriter, as well as the ability to log to a file.

Compose Multiplatform has a critical unique feature. On iOS, you can mix Compose UI with native iOS UI. This is all enabled by the direct interop of Kotlin Multiplatform. That capability is amazing for mobile development. However, the actual process of wiring these two requires a fair bit of boilerplate. We've launch Compose Swift Bridge to automate that.

If you are building a mobile product, you are probably considering React Native, Flutter, or some flavor of HTML. Maybe you’re even considering fully native apps. If so, you should learn about Compose Multiplatform. Compose provides full cross-platform efficiency, and can be as native as you need, minus the risk.

Let's chat about a few pain points we had when we started doing animations with compose, how we tried to solve them, and how you can solve the problems now!

We've updated the Droidcon NYC 2024 app with a new design and features. The app now uses Material 3 theming, and includes push notifications for in-conference messaging.

Fully native mobile apps was for years the default mobile app development option. As cross-platform solutions and device capability have improved, “good enough” has become the default choice for anything that isn’t a big, public app. Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose, which can seamlessly blend shared and native UI, can make “native” the default choice again.

KMMBridge is a tool that helps you publish iOS XCFramework binaries from Kotlin Mutliplatform. The tool has seen multiple iterations over the past few years. This version simplifies the configuration and usage of KMMBridge, with a primary focus on Swift Package Manager (SPM).