Quick question about Apollo-Android 3.x, is there any timeline for alpha? Of course I understand tha...

# apollo-kotlin

[wasyl]

Quick question about Apollo-Android 3.x, is there any timeline for alpha? Of course I understand that there’s no release date, I’m just looking for an answer like “hopefully somewhere mid-year”, “next year” or “we honestly don’t know, we’ll release when it’s ready” 🙂

[mbonnin]

Excellent question! The sooner the better but honestly, there are a bunch of crazy changes that might take time to stabilize. What we're aiming at is start doing bi-monthly -dev releases soon and go from there. -dev will have very little API guarantees at the beginning but at least they'll give an opportunity to try the branch easily. Once we have all the missing big blocks on -dev (mostly watchers and declarative cache), we'll go to -alpha and then release once we have had the opportunity to validate the API and we're feeling good about them.

[wasyl]

Sounds like at least late Q3, Q4 then, for the alpha?

[mbonnin]

I'm hoping before that but I don't want to give false hopes.

[mbonnin]

Also depends what you put inside "alpha". Is there something you're interested in particularly?

[mbonnin]

If you want 100% API stability yea, that'll be the last thing

[mbonnin]

If you want faster SQL reads, that should be available faster

[wasyl]

I’m interested in queries (watchers)/mutations and normalized cache for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile

[mbonnin]

If you don't mind the occasional API change, I have high hopes this will be available before Q3 but then software estimates are 😬

[wasyl]

sure 🙂 It’s accurate enough, that’s what I was looking for

[wasyl]

Thanks!