Newbie multiplatform user here with iOS now being able to us kotlinlang #multiplatform

Newbie multiplatform user here: with iOS now being able to use Compose Multiplatform, it seems like a lot of frontend can be shared along with the backend now in a mobile KMM project. Is it a bad thing to have most of my code now being in

shared

CLOVIS

04/27/2023, 8:04 AM

Why would it be a bad thing?

Justin Xu

04/27/2023, 8:12 AM

Isn't one of the main perks of KMM being able to use platform-specific stuff where it's more efficient? Feels wrong that everything is just multiplatform

CLOVIS

04/27/2023, 8:16 AM

Sure, when it's more efficient. But all your common code is already calling functions that are expect/actual to the platform native APIs, so you already get the benefits

darkmoon_uk

04/27/2023, 8:27 AM

lol... full

shared

is my Zen state, App projects be like:

fun main() = org.name.shared._main_()

Embrace ❤️ :compose-multiplatform:

(This is far from meaning that all the code is in

common

, plenty of

expect

actual

going on in

shared

module).

Pablichjenkov

04/27/2023, 8:41 AM

Even in shared folder you can still do expect/actual and/or inject platform specific implementations. Even better than putting everything in shared, I would say put it in a multiplatform Library.

darkmoon_uk

04/27/2023, 9:48 AM

That's what

shared

is?

Pablichjenkov

04/27/2023, 10:10 AM

Right, shared is basically a library

CLOVIS

04/27/2023, 10:35 AM

If your project is large, I recommend splitting `shared`into multiple modules

Pablichjenkov

04/27/2023, 12:16 PM

Yeup, into multiple "shared" ones

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