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Yan Pujante
09/27/2020, 2:27 PMI would like to write a GUI desktop application for macOS and I want to have an icon in the top menu bar (like the time machine icon) as well as use the notification system. Can I do this in Kotlin? Do I need to use Kotlin native?
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Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:40 PMI would use Kotlin Native along with Obj-C or Swift to provide the native interface.
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Yan Pujante
09/27/2020, 6:41 PMWas hoping I didn't have to do that since I don't know either of those languages...
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Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:44 PMYou might find it to be not so terrible as there are Kotlin bindings for platform libraries
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Yan Pujante
09/27/2020, 6:45 PMOk I will give it a shot. Thanks
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Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:45 PMYou might be able to get away with using Apples C API’s which are much easier to use in Kotlin via the
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Yan Pujante
09/27/2020, 6:48 PMDo you know where I can find information about the Apple C APIs and the platform libs?
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Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:50 PMSo it looks like all of this is Obj-C https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications I think there are platformLibs for this, let me quickly look
Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:50 PMPlatform libs are here btw: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/platformLibs/src/platform
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Yan Pujante
09/27/2020, 6:50 PMthank you. that helps a lot!
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Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:52 PMSpecifically take a look at this lib https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/platformLibs/src/platform/osx/UserNotifications.def
Sam Garfinkel
09/27/2020, 6:52 PMGood luck
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Yan Pujante
09/27/2020, 6:52 PM👍
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