Kotlin Multiplatform in Production

In this episode, Ritesh Gupta, Senior Staff Engineer from a famous OTT Platform, joins us. Get ready as he unveils how their team succeeded with Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS Engineers.

Timestamps:

• 00:15 – Introduction
• 01:58 – Preferring KMM over React Native and Flutter Personally.
• 04:25 – How to approach upcoming new tooling or frameworks?
• 10:45 – Getting serious with KMM for Production
• 13:05 – Real challenges with KMM: iOS vs Android
• 18:00 – Availability of different compatible Libraries
• 19:30 – Example of how to KMMify Analytics
• 22:13 – Convincing Product and Fellow Developers for KMM
• 32:12 – Structure of the KMM app for production
• 32:55 – Generating and distributing the iOS framework file
• 34:30 – Hosting the framework file for iOS
• 37:40 – Migrating to KMM from the current structure
• 38:36 – Gains from migrating to KMM
• 39:55 – Rewriting small features to KMM
• 45:50 – Different KMM libraries available for common use cases
• 47:20 – How to KMMify third-party libraries, with Firebase as an example
• 52:13 – Is the adoption of KMM libraries increasing?
• 55:35 – Release pipeline for KMM apps: Challenges
• 58:05 – Publishing and generation of .framework on iOS
• 1:11:00 – Conclusion