When leading a team of iOS and Android developers and creating the same application for both platforms, you are bound to face one (or all) of these issues: 1. PRODUCT: Tech debt and architecture issues are slowing development Your team is having difficulty adding new...
For native mobile developers using Kotlin Multiplatform, the iOS dev experience will be critical. Over the next several months at least, that will be the primary focus of Touchlab’s Kotlin R&D and our collaboration with Square. Our first release is an Xcode Plugin...
My professional career started in college with Java 1.0. I started working during the bright Write-Once-Run-Anywhere heyday. We were finally going to get one platform! Well, we know how that went. Java failed as a consumer UI platform. However, as a vehicle of...
The following text is transcribed from our Kotlin Multiplatform webinar. There is a video at the bottom of the blog post if you would rather listen to the segment. If you find this segment interesting, you can register for the full webinar recording and slides...
You need iOS developers to achieve the full potential of Kotlin Multiplatform; they're half of the equation! At Touchlab, we're committed to building the native experience for iOS developers using Kotlin Multiplatform. We interviewed Partner Kevin Galligan on what...
In the application development world, you hear the term cross-platform all the time. The idea of “write once, run anywhere” is like an unreachable promised land for management stakeholders, and an unrealistic and frustrating reality for developers. At Touchlab, we...
Cross-Platform Baggage Cross-platform development is not held in high regard these days, largely because the apps that purport to provide cross-platform support have never really done the job effectively. But I believe the time has come for us to reconsider. The...
Survey Link It's no secret that we are major Kotlin Multiplatform fans (spoiler alert!); with your input, a survey can help us prioritize our engineering efforts and initiate a conversation with folks who aren't quite as excited as we are. You'll see the basic,...
Episode 2 — Two Rules http://makeitstranger.com/ This is part 2 of my Kotlin Native threading series. In part 1 we got some test code running and introduced some of the basic concurrency concepts. In part 2 we’re going a bit deeper on those concepts and peeking...
Episode 1 — Worker http://makeitstranger.com/ My original post about Kotlin Native (KN) concurrency was written a while ago, with a much earlier version of Native and Multiplatform. Now that Kotlin Multiplatform is ready for production development, it’s time to...
Android or iOS. Which platform to build first? Great, you have an app idea! You are a tech founder or enterprise mobile leader and you really believe in your vision and team, but now, you’re challenged with deciding Android or iOS. First, there is no universal truth...
It’s madness, really. An app is written for the Web. Then, it’s written for Android. Same app, different code. Oh, and it needs be written for iOS, too. At the same time. Again, different code. The question is, “Why?” Development teams are essentially tripling their...
This started as a monster single post, now split in 2. Part 1, Saner Concurrency, is about what Kotlin is doing with concurrency. During my talk at KotlinConf, I promised a part 2 of Stranger Threads to better explain threading and state in Kotlin/Native. I built a...
I’ve been talking about Kotlin/Native for a little while now, and one of the big things I tell people is that threading will be very different than what they’re used to. It’s just something that you need to learn and understand. Kotlinconf was a couple weeks ago....
If you’ve been following our development of Doppl for the last couple years, we’ve built a Gradle toolset for J2objc, an architectural structure with an Android compatible API, and published a number of popular libraries for that ecosystem. In other words, a full...
I don’t know if this is the first Kotlin Multiplatform app in the iOS store, but it’s our first Kotlin Multiplatform app in the iOS store! Droidcon NYC 2018 on the App Store Technically we updated the existing Droidcon NYC/SF app, so the approval process was easier...
Mobile conference apps are an interesting beast. It’s a place where you can add the “weird” new tech people are talking about, and open source it, but that you’re not *quite* putting into production yet. Fun fact. Our original Droidcon NYC app was where we first tried...
Last week, Google’s third annual Tech Inclusion conference in New York brought folks who are leading efforts to build the innovate technologies and cultures of our future together with those who care to discuss solutions to diversity and inclusion in the tech...
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