Hey everyone, is there any developer with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile in Australia? :flag-au: I'd be...

# multiplatform

[Fabio Santo]

Hey everyone, is there any developer with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile in Australia? 🇦🇺
I'd be keen to connect and share experiences! 👋 🙂

[darkmoon_uk]

@Fabio Santo Two KMM Apps on the go for an Agritech client, here in Melbourne ☕ 🚃

[Fabio Santo]

well done @darkmoon_uk 👏

[Fabio Santo]

I'm currently setting up the project, everything looks promising!
please share your learnings if you can! 👏

[darkmoon_uk]

The major lesson I am taking from this KMM journey so far is not a technical one but a soft one.

[darkmoon_uk]

You may have this covered already Fabio; but I was probably guilty of assuming that all the devs who joined the project would share the spirit of adventure that's required when taking on a new tech stack like KMM.

[darkmoon_uk]

This turned out not to be the case; in particular it can be hard for iOS Devs to be told that they can't write logic in Swift any more.

[Fabio Santo]

yeah I could imagine that based on prev experience, we are about to start the hiring 😞

[Fabio Santo]

thanks for that !

[Fabio Santo]

not everyone is ready for this ! you need "Mobile engineers' not Android/iOS engineers 😄

[darkmoon_uk]

I would be very explicit with Engineers coming in that they're joining a KMM project and what that entails.

[darkmoon_uk]

Even though in many technical aspects, it's true Native development; the developer experience is nontheless different.

[darkmoon_uk]

Another learning from that; is preparation to use the Stack. The preparation I did was to develop and publish a personal project with KMM, all the way to store.

[darkmoon_uk]

Fair preparation, you might think; but I missed out on some aspects that we'd need for full commercial usage like instrumentation testing.

[darkmoon_uk]

Those things turned out to work as well; but there were some nervous moments betwen both myself and the team when trialling those 'gaps' for the first time in project.

[darkmoon_uk]

My advice would be; analyse all the technical capabilities you'll need, as much as possible, ahead of time

[darkmoon_uk]

and plan for a first couple of sprints just doing PoC's of each one.

[darkmoon_uk]

That way the whole team see that 'this can work' for every aspect of the project they need.

[Fabio Santo]

thanks for this btw, that's very insightful

[darkmoon_uk]

It's as much about letting the team experience it working, than actually proving it does

[darkmoon_uk]

If that makes sense

[Fabio Santo]

yes it does, totally. I'll explain better in our catchup 😄