Just created this new slide, summarizing what are ...

# multiplatform

[Daniele B]

Just created this new slide, summarizing what are the new components to use with KMP:

[BollywoodVillain]

Thanks for creating this, I was looking into how to use SwiftUI/Combine and your previous posts are really helpful.

[HankG]

A lot of "the future" feels more present day which is cool...I need at the concurrency line more carefully. I thought exposing coroutines to Android/iOS was a bad idea

[Daniele B]

@HankG you just need to use coroutines in the KMP shared code. You don’t need to expose them to the Android/iOS specific part.

[BollywoodVillain]

I’m not well versed with the coroutines implementation on iOS, but what are the main critiques against exposing coroutines to the platforms? Also I thought Kotlin coroutines will be part of Android ecosystem (like ktor) sooner or later.

[Daniele B]

@BollywoodVillain Ktor Client is a Kotlin MultiPlatform HTTP client library, not related to a specific platform. On Android it uses HTTPUrlConnection under the hood, and on iOS, it uses NSURLSession.
Coroutines are also a multi-platform feature of Kotlin. It makes sense to use them in the shared code. I guess you could also expose it to an iOS app, and collect it via Swift callbacks, but that in most cases could be avoided.

[BollywoodVillain]

What’s under the hood of the coroutines when they run on iOS? I wonder how the async/await has been implemented, is it GCD?

[Daniele B]

@BollywoodVillain I actually don't know for sure, but I suspect they use GCD.