A quick update on kexcel :bar_chart: kexcel now h...

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[Shreyash Kore]

A quick update on kexcel 📊

kexcel now has a documentation site — getting started guides, examples, and full API docs: shreyashkore.github.io/kexcel 🎉

If you missed the original post, kexcel is a lightweight, pure Kotlin library for reading, writing, and parsing Excel (.xlsx) files. No Apache POI, no JVM-only APIs — the same code runs on JVM, Android and iOS. Inspired by the Dart Excel library, with an API designed for the Kotlin ecosystem.

= breaking change (top-level getFontFamily() removed — use FontFamily.displayName()).

• Repository: github.com/ShreyashKore/kexcel
If you're looking for an Excel library for Kotlin, give it a try. Suggestions, issues, and contributions are welcome.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Awesome. I starred it in the case I might need it. 🙂

Next up: Apache PDFBox KMP port. 😄

[Shreyash Kore]

Thanks @Stefan Oltmann.
Porting PDF library seems a bit above my paygrade 😁

[Stefan Oltmann]

So the Excel format is less complicated than what I was thinking. ^^

[Anonymike]

@Stefan Oltmann I've had a few chats with the creator of PDFJet and may assist with porting that if he's open to it, though PDFJet is primarily for fast creation of PDFs

[Arjan van Wieringen]

Isnt POI crazy complex? Or is every usecase covered?

[S.]

Sadly this library doesn't work at all after adding another sheet, I can currently only work in Sheet1
github.com/ShreyashKore/kexcel/issues/3

[Shreyash Kore]

@Arjan van Wieringen Kexcel is a port of dart excel library by justkawal, so not all functionalities are supported.

[Shreyash Kore]

@S. thanks for reporting. I'll take a look.

[altavir]

PDF is insanely complex. POI is so complex because it was first created for legacy XLS format.

[Shreyash Kore]

This too, Kexcel only supports the XLSX format.

[Shreyash Kore]

@S. published version 0.1.1 with fixes.