We are globally recognized cross-platform mobile app development experts
Touchlab is the industry-leading Kotlin Multiplatform app design and development company in the world. Learn more about our cross- platform app development and consulting services.
Trusted by leading mobile engineering teams
Touchlab – Top rated cross-platform mobile app development & consultancy
Are you looking for the best cross platform mobile app development company? Then look no further. Our services are designed to:
– ⬆️ feature parity while ⬇️duplicative engineering efforts across Android and iOS
– Accelerate feature development and future-proof business logic
– Craft low-risk programs for engineering managers to introduce and scale KMP
-Improve developer recruitment and retention
We’re recognized by JetBrains and the leading KMP practitioners as the global experts in cross-platform app development & consultancy services.
We regularly publish content that grows the Kotlin Multiplatform global community and our R&D efforts in Kotlin Multiplatform introduce new engineering advancements to the ecosystem.
We designed a KMM starter project to get you running on Android & iOS quickly.
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The future of cross-platform app & software development is Kotlin Multiplatform.
But what is Kotlin Multiplatform?
Touchlab helps your mobile engineering team ship features faster, increase efficiency, and future-proof products and processes. But let’s start at the beginning.
Here is a precise definition of what Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is:
Optional, natively-integrated, open-source code sharing platform, based on the popular, modern language, Kotlin.
Why chose Kotlin Multiplatform
for your next project?
Now that you have an understanding of what Kotlin Multiplatform is, let’s take a look at why you must consider KMP for your next cross-platform software development project.
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Traditional Mobile App Development
Same app, different code. The question is, “Why?
Development teams are essentially tripling (web, iOS, & Android) their coding and testing efforts to ensure multiplatform coverage, which is:
1. Costly.
2. Time-consuming.
3. And – this might be the craziest part – it’s uncertain what the shelf-life of the code will be. As we know, the future is unwritten.
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The Kotlin Multiplatform Way – low risk and optional
We at Touchlab believe Kotlin Multiplatform is the tech stack of the future. For many platforms, but especially for native mobile.
While we’ve completed comparisons of different cross-platform app development solutions (like Flutter, React Native and Xamarin), we actually believe Kotlin Multiplatform is in a league of its own because it’s not an all-or-nothing cross-platform mobile app development solution.
Evaluating Multiplatform Frameworks Webinar
Hosted by Touchlab Dir. Project Strategy
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Optional means the tech [KMP] is designed to be used along with the native tech. Most cross-platform app development frameworks allow you to integrate them into existing apps, but are generally not designed to make that easy. “Possible” is not the same as “actively designed for”.
Kevin Galligan
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Several leading engineering orgs currently use KMP in production.
(Square is one of them)
Square announced its development team’s commitment to KMP early in 2019 and is now working with Touchlab to develop for both Android and iOS with KMP.
Their goal is to use the same vocabulary for both platforms, and in the process, create a single, cohesive development team that will be able to code once with no duplication.
To introduce this new approach, and to help ensure a smooth transition, their iOS and Android engineers are code reviewing each other’s work and looking for opportunities to align architectures. You can read Square’s announcement about our partnership here.
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Thriving Community – Kotlin Multiplatform is popular
There’s a groundswell of enthusiastic support in developer communities around the world and as the Kotlin Multiplatform experts, Touchlab is at the heart of this:
1. There are 1.5 million developers currently using Kotlin
96,000 GitHub repositories containing 100 million lines of code. And the numbers keep growing.
2. It’s one of the top two languages that developers are hungry to learn.
Simply put, Kotlin is more readable, reusable, interoperable, and safer, offering a first-rate developer experience.
Our Kotlin Multiplatform app development consultancy services are geared around truly understanding your customers and user base.
Experts in Kotlin Multiplatform
and cross-platform mobile development services
Over the last two years, we’ve invested in becoming the Kotlin Multiplatform experts. Here’s a snapshot of our best cross-platform mobile development client partnerships:
Square / Cash App
Partnering with Square on Kotlin Multiplatform to give their developers the ability to deliver on both platforms
Pizza Hut
Leveraging code sharing to build for both Android and iOS in the same time as just developing the Android version
Kotlin Multiplatform Consulting Services
The Touchlab Refactory
The Touchlab Refactory is incremental mobile code refactoring with Kotlin Multiplatform. Better code – Better test coverage – Better architecture.
Innovation Audit
Decision making is a risky proposition for an engineering leader. We’ll help you mitigate some of that risk by building a view of your existing products, staff, and processes and helping you understand it in the context of the larger Kotlin Multiplatform engineering community.
Multiplatform Change Management
Mobile engineers deeply identify with their chosen platform (iOS or Android) and implementing a transformative app development plan to move the team into a post-platform future brings unique challenges.
Kotlin Multiplatform FOr Cross-Platform App Development
We’ve worked with some partners to build their very first mobile product ever and we’ve worked with some to completely reinvent their product for a new platform, a new user base, or a new profit goal. If you want to create something amazing, get in touch.
Introducing our Newest Service: The Touchlab Refactory
The Touchlab Refactory is incremental mobile code refactoring with Kotlin Multiplatform.
– Better code
– Better test coverage
– Better architecture.
What is mobile code refactoring
with Kotlin Multiplatform?
Kevin answers questions about The Touchlab Refactory, a new approach to mobile code refactoring for Engineering Managers.
The Touchlab Refactory process
No large-scale rewrites.
No workflow disruptions.
Scoping
Audit Current States
Understand Business Goals
Understand Engineering Goals
Intake
Dependency Mapping
Risk Analysis
Task Generation
Refactor
Test Coverage
Architecture Effectiveness
Code Sharing
Handoff
Technical Documentation
Outcome Report
Recommendation
