What's the best IDE to use on a Mac to be able to open a KMM project and edit both Swift code and Ko...

# multiplatform

[rocketraman]

What's the best IDE to use on a Mac to be able to open a KMM project and edit both Swift code and Kotlin/Native? I've tried using Appcode with the K/N plugin but it dosen't really seem to understand my project. It ignores the top-level gradle file. If I use the Xcode workspace to open the project, and I can't seem to import my existing shared library code.

[Big Chungus]

AndroidStudio?

[rocketraman]

It doesn't understand the Swift code, nor the iosMain integrations with Obj-C.

[rocketraman]

Great for the Android bit... I can use Android Studio for Android, AppCode for Swift. But that still leaves the shared lib code that calls Obj-C code. I really want completion for that Obj-C stuff, its such a pain to try and puzzle out the right calls from docs.

[Big Chungus]

Well 1.4 finally gave us ability to run both simulators from the same IDE. Hopefully 1.5 will bring Swift support to Android studio

[Big Chungus]

As things stand now, there's no one-fits -all solution yet

[rocketraman]

Trying IDEA ultimate but it can't load the project due to the code 65 error from yesterday...

[HankG]

I was curious about this too playing around

[HankG]

Was disappointed couldn't load AppCode Swift stuff into Android Studio for that

[HankG]

So the recommended way is Xcode for Swift and Android Studio for KMM and IntelliJ for the JS part?

[Big Chungus]

Can't you install some js plugin on androidStudio?

[rocketraman]

As far as I can tell, yeah, its AppCode and XCode for Swift, Android Studio/Ultimate for Android and shared code. Ultimate is good for JS too, so with Ultimate you need two IDEs. I doubt Android Studio will get Swift support any time soon -- Android Studio is made by Google (from a codebase shared with Jetbrains) and I doubt Google will put much effort into supporting Swift -- Google specifically bills Studio as a "slimmed down" version of IJ specifically for Android devs. But IJ might get the required support from AppCode.

[rocketraman]

Android Studio/Ultimate for Android and shared code

Actually, no, shared native code isn't well handled by Ultimate -- it has no completion for Obj-C libs AFAICT.

[rocketraman]

So I don't see any good tool yet for shared native code dev.