Is there a way to share `.xml` files between Android&IOS?

# multiplatform

[AmrJyniat]

Is there a way to share .xml files between Android&IOS?

[rudolf.hladik]

i've just used this solution for json files. xml will be the same

[Evegenii Khokhlov]

could you tell more about use-case?

[AmrJyniat]

I have a shape xml file, can I share it with IOS?

[Evegenii Khokhlov]

and how you want to use it in iOS?

[Ahmad Hassan]

I also have the same question.
For example, I want to achieve localization. What will be the approach?

[Evegenii Khokhlov]

@Ahmad Hassan for localization I would suggest looking at https://github.com/icerockdev/moko-resources

But I would prefer using some localization platform it is pretty easy to keep keys there and generate translation files for both platforms

[Sam]

I personally wasn't able to get the resources approach to work without errors, but I found what to me is a simpler approach that also hits up against fewer naming convention issues.

I also mostly just put things like images in each platform project separately, but for what files I do share, I use Android "assets" rather than "resources". I use this to share some JSON files. Obviously this won't work for anything where e.g. Android requires an XML resource, but for files you just read at runtime, it works great.

I have a folder shared/src/commonMain/assets and then the following config:

kotlin {
    cocoapods {
        extraSpecAttributes.apply {
            this["resources"] = "'src/commonMain/assets/**/*'"
        }
    }
}

android {
    sourceSets {
        named("main") {
            assets.srcDir("src/commonMain/assets")
        }
    }
}

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

I propose to try https://github.com/Skeptick/libres for common resources