For those of you new to Touchlab, we're the KMM experts. This video is a recap of Day 4 of the Kotlin 1.4 event. The day focused on Kotlin for server side. In this recap the Touchlab team shared why they're excited about Kotlin for server side and share parting...
If you recently learned of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile from the Alpha announcement, there’s plenty of names to make sense of. For starters, there’s Kotlin Multiplatform or KMP, Kotlin/Native is also a thing, did we mention KMPP? or what about Kotlin Multiplatform...
For those of you new to Touchlab, we're the KMM experts. This video is a recap of Day 3 of the Kotlin 1.4 event. The day focused on Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM). For our recap we honed in on five key areas: KMM experience for iOS developers Interop and risk...
This video is a recap of Day 2 of the Kotlin 1.4 event. The day focused on the libraries that the JetBrains and Kotlin team is building to make Kotlin developers around the world more successful and effective. Our video recap is intended for engineering managers...
This video is a recap of Day 1 KMM announcements and development from the Kotlin 1.4 event. This video is intended for engineering managers interested in adopting KMM for their teams. At Touchlab we specialize in Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM). Kotlin 1.4 released...
Kotlin 1.4 released with a focus on quality and performance. In support of the release, the Kotlin team at JetBrains is producing a Kotlin 1.4 online event. They describe it as follows, We want to make sure that you have a great experience using Kotlin 1.4, and we...
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. Up first was Touchlab engineer Russell Wolf (recorded Monday May 4th, 1 PM...
Touchlab Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) and iOS engineer Ben Whitley developed a getting started fast with KMM tutorial for iOS developers. In this recording of an earlier #TouchlabShare live session, Ben walks a live audience through the tutorial, share tips on...
Here’s a quick little followup to Sam’s post: Multiplatform Encryption with SQLDelight and SQLCipher. Recently for a client we needed to implement this with Kotlin 1.4.0, and ran into a couple issues. I’m only going to describe how to get the iOS side working as...
The Kotlin 1.4 release is a major milestone in the evolution of Kotlin as a platform. A lot of this release is behind the scenes. Stabilizing and improving the platform itself, as well as moving forward the common compiler efforts that have been in the works for quite...
Last year we received a PR to SQLiter (The Kotlin/Native driver that Touchlab maintains for SQLDelight) which laid the groundwork for handling encryption of our SQLite databases. Recently, Kevin Schildhorn and I have been working on taking the next step of introducing...
A recent client engagement involved interop between Kotlin coroutines in shared code, and RxSwift on the iOS side. We did some work to ensure that this could be done in a way that is type-safe and thread-safe. Whether or not you use RxSwift, hopefully this can provide...
When working on the iOS side of Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) projects, you'll probably find yourself using Swift closures to update your UI. At Touchlab, we find doing so to be best practice for most use cases. However, if you're not familiar with closures in...
We put this mini-tutorial together to help you better understand the state rules of Kotlin/Native. For a more in-depth, step-by-step, tutorial, see our Kotlin/Native Concurrency hands-on lab published on the official Kotlin site.You can also watch Touchlab partner...
I’m going to share a very (very) simple, helpful, little trick if you want to debug a Kotlin shared framework within an iOS application. Adding Xcode references to the Kotlin files in your shared library will enable you to do frequently used development practices,...
If you’re working on an iOS app that’s using a shared Kotlin library, you might be skeptical about your ability to debug memory issues. Not only is it possible, it’s actually really easy. And not only is it really easy, there’s a myriad of different ways to go about...
Recently Kotlin 1.3.70 was released, adding many improvements and fixes for Kotlin. One of the most exciting improvements is the one mentioned below: Support for multiple Kotlin frameworks in a single application Previously, there was a known issue that an application...