I recently wrote an article on Compose Multiplatform where I walked through a real-world implementat...

# compose-ios

[Kwabena Berko]

I recently wrote an article on Compose Multiplatform where I walked through a real-world implementation, discussed the challenges I faced, and provided insights on whether Compose Multiplatform is ready for production in it's current state. I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions on this.
https://medium.com/proandroiddev/exploring-the-viability-of-cross-platform-ui-development-with-compose-multiplatform-c5be0608b69d

[Chrimaeon]

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[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

Could you show the string resources which don't work with the compose multiplatform?

[Kwabena Berko]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov Sure, this is one example in the article:

<string name="signup_email_question">What\'s your email?</string>

When escaping the apostrophe with the backslash character, the apostrophe is still displayed in the UI. The only way I was able to get it to work was by using unicode characters. In this case, the unicode for apostrophe is \u0027s , so the string resource now becomes:

<string name="signup_email_question">What\u0027s your email?</string>

This is the only way I was able to make it work.
These are all the strings used in the sample app. I had to replace all usages of apostrophes with unicode characters: https://github.com/KwabenBerko/Spotify-2021-Compose-Multiplatform/blob/main/common/src/commonMain/composeResources/values/strings.xml

[Nikita Lipsky]

When escaping the apostrophe with the backslash character

What if you don't escape the apostrophe and just use it as is?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

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[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

@Kwabena Berko it would be good to update the article

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

Ping?

[Kwabena Berko]

Sorry for the late reply.
Not escaping the apostrophe fails the build with the following error:
Can not extract resource from com.android.aaptcompiler

[Kwabena Berko]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov
It seems you're running it on a desktop project.
Can you try building and running on either Android or iOS?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

kotlin = "2.0.0"
compose = "1.6.10"
agp = "8.2.2"

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

@Kwabena Berko there shouldn't be the problem!

[Kwabena Berko]

Interesting 🤔
So, why does mine fail?

[Kwabena Berko]

I even get an IDE error as well as a build error:

[Kwabena Berko]

Also, for context, I'm using:
Android Studio Koala | 2024.1.1 Patch 1

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

I don't know. Could you file the issue and attach the reproducer?
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=CMP

[Kwabena Berko]

Sure, will do

[Kwabena Berko]

Ticket/issue filed:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CMP-5791/Not-Escaping-Apostrophe-in-String-Resources-Causes-A-Build-Failure

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

Closed

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

and waiting the article update please wait 😉

[Kwabena Berko]

Awesome.
Thank you very much!
I will update the article very soon. I will let you know when I do that as well

[Kwabena Berko]

Article has been updated.
Thank you very much for helping to resolve this. I really appreciate it.