Has anyone tried multiplatform for iOS? With all t...

# multiplatform

[Joe Butler]

Has anyone tried multiplatform for iOS? With all the announcements this week that Apple made, I’m curious to see how effective KMP is on Apple platforms.

[streetsofboston]

Many have tried, and successfully.
Not sure which particular announcement you are thinking about

[streetsofboston]

Or do you mean Compose MultiPlatform (for iOS)?

[Nestor Ledon]

I'm using compose mp on iOS. It's way better than I would have imagined.

[Jacob Ras]

Many are using KMP: https://medium.com/@jacobras/popular-apps-using-kotlin-multiplatform-kmp-in-2023-and-what-you-can-learn-from-them-1f94d86489b7

Few are using CMP already: https://medium.com/@jacobras/apps-using-compose-multiplatform-on-ios-now-beta-in-2024-developer-insights-fe24b224d754

[Viktor Sirotin]

Today I installed new version of Android Studio and XCode and created Multiplattform library from template (without adding own code). By build I had an errors.

[Joe Butler]

I'm specializing in the JetBrains ecosystem.

[Joe Butler]

Jacob seriously thank you for sharing that! I reposted it on my twitter account and my work slack group for visibility!

[chrisjenx]

We use Compose on iOS, it's a huge time saver, literally saving writing two apps, watched the keynote, nothing they announced jumped out to change my mind, if anything, hopefully they have made xcode less sh*t as thats the worst part about CMP.
We will also replace our VueJS App with CMP once Safari flipping ships WASM GC....

[Joe Butler]

I'm a JetBrains fan myself.

[Joe Butler]

Any ideas when that’s gonna happen specifically safari shipping with assembly garbage collection?

[chrisjenx]

We were hoping Safari 18 as it looks feature complete in their tracker, but we checked and it's still not there even behind a flag. https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CDFP59223/p1717872104433009