Time to introduce KMP Sharing – a universal sharin...

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[Marek Kaput]

Time to introduce KMP Sharing – a universal sharing component for Compose Multiplatform

📱 Cross-platform API
⚡ Native performance powered by Android’s Intent system and iOS’s UIActivityViewController
📂 File sharing support with proper MIME type detection
🎨 Built with Compose Multiplatform for quality UI development
🛠️ Many platform-specific customization options

GitHub repo: https://github.com/software-mansion/kmp-sharing

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

another good library: https://filekit.mintlify.app/dialogs/share-file

[Artur Gęsiarz]

FileKit is a broader file library that offers basic sharing of one or more files as one of its features.
We focus strictly on sharing and also support:

• link sharing, and soon adding rich previews to them on Android;
• text sharing, also alongside files;
• modification of the native settings of these dialogs – title, anchor point on iPadOS, etc.;
• soon content:// URIs on Android – very useful for dynamically generated images.
Overall, if you’re already working with files and just need a quick way to share them, FileKit is great; but for other sharing applications or when more customization is required, KMP Sharing provides greater flexibility.

[Pearce Keesling]

What's the story behind software mansion's recent interest in cmp? You've always been a pillar of the RN ecosystem so I'm curious. It does seem in-line with all the skia work you guys do.

[Marek Kaput]

We're not only a RN shop, we obviously try to diversify. There's a strong multimedia/Elixir team (Membrane, Fishjam, Popcorn), we have some running efforts in AI space (ExecuTorch et al.), there are many just full-stack projects going on. We even have a blockchain/language development team where we work on an entire dev stack for a programming language (that is still my primary focus professionally).

I got a chance to explore some internals of KMP some time ago, and found out that this is a pretty neat tech with some interesting strengths. We also happened to get some questions about this space recently, and thus an interest has organically built up. That's a very early-stage thing. We're using open source (which is an essential part of our business model) + all the events I mentioned to build up a skilled team.

[Pearce Keesling]

Very cool! Thanks for the insights