Kotlin 1.5.30 officially launched just now. There has been a steady stream of Kotlin releases over the last year or so, each with new features and fixes. In other words, business as usual. Since we (Touchlab) are plugging away, day in and out, working on client...
Jetpack Compose hit 1.0 a few weeks ago, and it came with a wonderful and robust animations API. With this new API, you will have total control over animations when the state changes. But when it comes to more complex scenarios, you may face some non-obvious paths....
“Form follows function,” or so they say. That old tenet of design may be a bit trite, but it does happen to describe a significant shift in direction for Android developers that has been a couple years in the making. If we turn back the clock to May, 2019 and make our...
KaMP Kit and Jetpack Compose Hey folks, Brady from Touchlab here. I've only been at Touchlab since the beginning of the year, but KaMP Kit, our simple-but-not-too-simple sample project to help those considering Kotlin Multiplatform, started way back at the end of...
Google and Jetbrains have released the first stable build of Jetpack Compose 1.0, the new Kotlin-based UI framework for Android. Having been in beta for five months, Jetpack Compose is now officially getting its 1.0 release and our mobile developers at Touchlab share...
Intro I recently started using Google One Tap and Facebook login for some auth work for one of our clients at Touchlab, and wanted to make sure I was using the recommended best practices using coroutines and the new Activity Result API. This was trickier than I...
Intro To celebrate Jetpack Compose finally hitting 1.0, I wanted to take a bit of a deep dive to see what the framework has to offer. Instead of more of the same code labs with useful UI, I decided to bring back an old reddit trend of creating the absolute worst...
Transcript In this episode, I get Realmʼs Kotlin Multiplatform sample app running on Android and iOS. Welcome to another episode ... of Touchlab Touchpoints... Iʼm Justin Mancinelli. [Realm Kotlin First Commit, Dec 2019] Itʼs been a long time in the making,...
Intro At some point you will probably need to store a user’s auth token on the device, so they won’t need to auth whenever they use your app. This is a solved problem on Android with EncryptedSharedPreferences and iOS with the Keychain Services API. But if you’re...
Last year I wrote about a pattern for interop between Kotlin coroutines and RxSwift. I appreciate the attention it received, particularly where people have applied it to other reactive frameworks, and even including a code-generation plugin using the same ideas. I...
In this episode of #TouchlabShare we were joined from the Netherlands by Philips Innovation Services software and connectivity architect, Jereon Brosens. We discussed how Philips uses Kotlin Multiplatform for SDK connectivity. We also explored the gains KMP provides...
In this episode of #TouchlabShare we speak to Aaron Sarazan (VP Engineering for Media, Infrastructure & Mobile) and Josh Shin (Mobile Engineering Lead) about implementing and integrating KMM. 0:35 Introductions 2:48 Roles & responsibilities + a day in the life...
In this episode of #TouchlabShare we were joined all the way from Japan by Wantedly engineer Malvin Sutanto. We discussed why the mobile team originally explored cross-platform mobile development and why they switched to Kotlin Multiplatform after initial development...
In this #TLTouchPoints episode, we cover Apollo GraphQL Mobile Day 2021 and dive into interesting Kotlin Multiplatform developments announced at the event. Over the past few years we've the seen the mobile team at Apollo GraphQL growing and their SDK is gaining...
JetBrains writes, "This past November, we conducted our first-ever Kotlin Multiplatform survey with the goal of understanding how the recent changes in the technology have shaped the ways developers use it. This initiative was well received by the community, resulting...
Kotlin Multiplatform is a component of Glovo's company-wide data standardization and transformation solution. It's used across four platforms (Android, iOS, web and backend), demonstrating KMP's unique ability to share code across multiple platforms. In this episode...
Netflix is the first FAANG company to publicly adopt Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and put it into production. The team is using KMP and mobile technologies to innovate in the physical production of Film and TV. Netflix writes in the announcement post, Kotlin...
In this episode of #TouchlabShare, we invited members of the community to discuss how they took their interest in Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile to new heights and lessons learned along the way. Touchlab partner Jeff Namnum and business development lead Carmichael...