Newbie multiplatform user here: with iOS now being...

# multiplatform

[Justin Xu]

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]

Why would it be a bad thing?

[Justin Xu]

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]

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]

lol... full shared is my Zen state, App projects be like:
fun main() = org.name.shared._main_()
Embrace ❤️ K

[darkmoon_uk]

(This is far from meaning that all the code is in common, plenty of expect / actual going on in shared module).

[Pablichjenkov]

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]

That's what shared is?

[Pablichjenkov]

Right, shared is basically a library

[CLOVIS]

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

[Pablichjenkov]

Yeup, into multiple "shared" ones