How do you encode and decode Base64 in common code...

# multiplatform

[iamthevoid]

How do you encode and decode Base64 in common code? Looks like this contains in ktor, but it is marked as InternalApi

[iamthevoid]

Also i’d found any gist but somewhy i do not trust them fully

[Anton Lakotka [JB]]

On latest main branch of ktor it isn't internal
https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/blob/main/ktor-utils/common/src/io/ktor/util/Base64.kt

Although I'm not sure if its published like this.

[Nicolas Patin]

In the KMM Native documentation, the exemple of expect / actual is the base64 case.
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform-library.html#native

[iamthevoid]

But still internal in last stable 1.6.8 version

[Anton Lakotka [JB]]

But still internal in last stable 1.6.8 version

True, but I think you can still use it, can't you?

[iamthevoid]

True, but I think you can still use it, can’t you?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mbonnin]

Looks like Okio has something

[hfhbd]

I still don't get it, why it's not in std lib.

[mbonnin]

It's interesting to have it bound to an I/O library so that you can encode/decode without having to hold all your data in RAM

[yschimke]

I feel like Okio is missing standard lib for KMP

[David Nedrow]

@Anton Lakotka [JB] Devs shy away from internal methods because they aren't generally guaranteed to be non-changing in their implementation.