Sebastian and Pamela discuss what it means to be an expert in Kotlin Multiplatform, with the help of a panel of experts! Learn about why it's interesting to dive deep into a certain technology, recommendations on how to learn advanced topics, and general advice on how to get the most out of using KMP.

KMP libraries:

Interesting code to explore

by Jake

Ecosystem wishlist

Learning resources

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More KMP experts Kevin Galligan

Russell Wolf

Jesse Wilson

Sebastian Sellmair

Salomon Brys

Hosts: Sebastian Aigner

Pamela Hill

Guests: Jake Wharton

John O'Reilly

Konstantin Tskhovrebov

Tadeas Kriz

Timestamps:
(0:00) Introductions
(1:40) Why be a KMP expert?
(9:14) First steps to being an expert
(16:38) Respecting each platform
(24:04) Libraries for KMP
(27:45) Advanced learning resources
(38:18) Ecosystem wishlist
(43:03) Exercising your KMP skills
(48:15) Shoutouts to other experts
(51:34) Wrap-up

• Skip
• Skip.tools on GitHub
• Contributing to SkipUI webinar
• kdoctor

• Sebastian Aigner
  • Website
  • Bluesky
• Márton Braun
  • Website
  • Bluesky

• Abe White
  • Twitter
  • Mastodon
• Marc Prud'hommeaux
  • GitHub

Sebastian introduces the new co-host of the podcast, in a special episode recorded on location at droidcon New York! Joined by Russell Wolf, author of the multiplatform-settings library, we discuss the conference, different code sharing approaches for Kotlin Multiplatform, and how to build great multiplatform libraries.

• droidcon New York
  • When sharing isn’t caring: Using platform-specific code in Kotlin Multiplatform (Russell’s talk)
  • Compose Multiplatform on iOS: On the Road to Stable (Seb’s talk)
  • Composing an API the *right* way (Márton’s talk)
• The deprecated Accompanist WebView implementation for Jetpack Compose
• russhwolf/multiplatform-settings on GitHub
• Kotlin Multiplatform database libraries
  • Room
  • SQLDelight
• Dependency injection libraries
  • Koin
  • Kotlin-inject
• ViewModel for Kotlin Multiplatform

Hosts:

• Sebastian Aigner
  • Website
• Márton Braun
  • Website

Guest:

• Russell Wolf
  • GitHub
  • Twitter

Timestamps 0:00 Intro at home 2:02 Intro at droidcon NYC 4:23 Russell’s talk topic 8:14 Code sharing approaches 12:28 Wrapping native APIs 16:18 Attempted segue 16:35 Designing reusable APIs 18:02 Actual segue 18:14 multiplatform-settings 20:23 Supported platforms 24:05 SharedPreferences challenges 26:20 Observable preferences 29:51 Secure storage 30:55 Windows again 31:36 Library code as reference 33:15 Testable library code 35:05 Initializing a KMP library 38:18 Database libraries 40:55 Dependency injection 44:40 Outro