Is there any proper way to share Android & Desktop sources yet? Most of my components will be th...

# compose-desktop

[Brian G]

Is there any proper way to share Android & Desktop sources yet? Most of my components will be the same. As far as I can tell, we can't use a common source set because the desktop/android dependencies are different, even though the APIs are mostly identical

[Javier]

in the samples you can search something like jvmAndroidMain or something so, I think it is what you want

[Brian G]

Hmm can't find it

[Brian G]

The Kotlin docs say it's not possible:
"Kotlin doesn’t currently support sharing a source set for these combinations:
• Several JVM targets
• JVM + Android targets"
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/mpp-share-on-platforms.html#configure-the-hierarchical-structure-manually

[Javier]

compose-jb samples I mean, sorry

[Brian G]

Yeah I've looked through all the gradle files. They all use commonMain, but I also have an iOS target. I think Android+Desktop+iOS with code sharing between Android+Desktop is just not supported.

[Javier]

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/examples/issues/common/src/jvmAndAndroidMain

[Javier]

Ah, about iOS I am not sure

[Javier]

the sample is only JVM + android

[Brian G]

Ah, they are using kotlin.srcDirs, not source sets. That's what I'm doing now, it compiles but the IDE does not like it, shows all the imports red

[Javier]

that is weird

[Javier]

@Sebastian Sellmair [JB] maybe can help here

[Brian G]

Well, I feel better about using srcDir since that's what their sample does. I guess it's just an IDE issue (using Android Studio 4.2)

[Javier]

Ah, problem with 4.2 it is very old compared to the last IDEA version, and IDEA has implemented a lot of bug fixes for multiplatform

[Brian G]

That's what I figured. Actually I went into my Plugins and noticed a Kotlin plugin update. After update & restart the red is gone / autocomplete is back 🙂

[uli]

jbCompose does not have any android dependencies. So you can share your components in a pure jvmMain and omit androidMain.