While Compose for iOS is not production ready yet and may never fully replace native iOS UI, it’s definitely worth it to try it out and in the future I’m sure it will find it’s place in codebases of many Multiplatform applications.
Back to open source
Touchlab has been doing a lot of tooling work and research lately, mostly around iOS developer experience and KMP. We forked the Droidcon app into a private repo to dogfood some of that stuff and had intended to move changes back into open source pretty quickly.
The iOS Droidcon App with Native Compose UI
Jetbrains has been working on Native Compose UI, and I think most people who pay attention to these things have seen examples. Internally, we all figured it was still a ways off from being usable, but we wanted to check in on the status. So, we added some to this year’s Droidcon NYC app.
The xcode-kotlin plugin by Touchlab allows debugging of Kotlin code running in an iOS application directly from Xcode.
This enables a smoother development and integration experience for iOS developers using shared code from Kotlin and a more accessible experience for larger teams where everyone may not be editing the shared code directly.
Writing tests is part of every developer’s day-to-day routine. They help you write better and more reliable code. In addition, they can verify that your code does what it was supposed to do, and your changes haven’t introduced bugs. In this article, I’ll show you how to configure the test suite from your KMM project.
Kermit is a Kotlin Multiplatform logging library. The log is configured on each platform to write to various, potentially platform-specific, outputs, but can be called from shared “common” Kotlin code. Crash reporting tools like Crashlytics allow you to get error reports from remote devices running your software.
Touchlab will be defaulting to the “new” memory model for anything that’s in dev and/or not hitting production for a few months. That decision will be reviewed if there’s some wild performance issue or bug, but otherwise, we’re just doing it.
Today we’re announcing the stable release of our logging library Kermit If you’ve been following me, I’ve given a few talks on Kotlin KMP library development. In my previous talks I gave some suggestions on what kinds of libraries the community needs. I went out of...
Kotlin/Native’s strict memory model has been a common topic of interest and/or concern in the community for some time. The arrival of the new memory model will remove what many consider an adoption blocker. However, creating and testing a new memory model is a...
In this episode of #TouchlabShare, we're joined by Robert Szabo (Engineering Manager) and Turker Nessa Kucuk (Team Lead) from Cox Automotive. We discuss how they use Kotlin Multiplatform Analytics to standardize analytics and much more. Timestamps 0:34 Robert and...
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...