Hi all, I have a multiplatform compose app I am wr...

# compose-desktop

[simon ballantyne]

Hi all, I have a multiplatform compose app I am writing, where I have a common ui, however that ui has a function that is implemented differently on android and desktop. is there a way I can detect platform in the common module to call the platform specific functions?

[John O'Reilly]

you should be able to use expect/actual for that

[simon ballantyne]

ah fab, thanks for the quick response!

[Łukasz Nowakowski]

You can use “expect” “actual” in commons depending on the UI. You can also create a getPlatform() function as in the example https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform-mobile-create-first-app.html depending on what you really want to achieve

[John O'Reilly]

there's some examples of doing that in https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-wasm-examples/tree/main/compose-jetsnack#jetsnack