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How do I reference more than one KMM frameworks in the iOS app. I've tried playing with the linker settings in XCode but it doesn't seem to be helping. It works if I link the original shared module that was created by Android studio, but anything else doesn't work.

You can't, unless that changed and I didn't hear about it.

Actually i've been able to do it by manually adding an extra value to the `Framework Search Paths` in XCode

I wonder how that works. Each KMM framework includes its dependencies so you have them multiple times

I find the following article pretty useful: <https://touchlab.co/multiple-kotlin-frameworks-in-application/|https://touchlab.co/multiple-kotlin-frameworks-in-application/>

So basically, it has been working since Kotlin 1.3.70, but don't do it :smile:

Reason why I started looking into multiple frameworks is because I want to have a different framework for `data` and a different one for `ui` both of which are multiplatform components

Well, I can imagine an isolated framework built with Kotlin, that you can include in addition. Yes, it will include all the dependencies. But this might be ok, it depends.

I believe Kotlin frameworks can't really communicate with each other, as explained in the article.

Yeah if they are 100% independent, why not. But if at some point you need to pass some class from `data` to a function or something from `ui`, you won't be able to

What is the proper way to go if I want them to communicate with each other

Should I have a parent module which will be the framework, and create sub-modules inside of it

I would create an ambrella module, and export it as a Framework, with dependencies added as `api`.

I've just tried this but the framework isn't getting generated for the umbrella module <@UHAJKUSTU>

Here is an example of an umbrella module: <https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/master/examples/todoapp/common/root/build.gradle.kts|https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/master/examples/todoapp/common/root/build.gradle.kts>

Basically, you export it the same way. Just one module instead of two.

Thanks <@UHAJKUSTU>, I managed to get it to work by following the sample.

<@UHAJKUSTU> One thing i've noticed from using the umbrella module is that the framework doesn't get generated if there aren't any sources for the umbrella module itself. For instance, if I delete `src/commonMain/kotlin` then the framework isn't generated and XCode will report a no mudule found error. I don't want to have any sources in there

Well, you could put a dummy class or function there as a workaround.

Yeah that's what i'm doing now, but thats what I was hoping I wouldn't have to do :grinning:

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-52378|https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-52378>