Hello 👋! Can I start a Kotlin MMP for Android & iOS with Android Studio on Windows? Does anybody have some samples on how to prepare the environment and "hello world sample" maybe?

The only problem you’ll have is working with iOS specific code as that requires a Mac. Anything that is Android or common code should be fine.

Thanks for the reply Sam. So limitating and frustrating btw. So the only option is to get a Mac for anybody who want to develop native apps with shared common code

You can develop native apps with shared common code (Windows Native, JVM, even iOS) but you will not be able to compile iOS/mac targets without a mac

Thanks James! Very clear response. I have some doubts as I am literally new into Multiplatform and you seem to have experience with it, which IDE do you use for it or probably do you have to work with multiple IDEs at the time (for android (A.S), ios (XCode) and common (Intelli J)? How does that work?

I actually work mostly on a shared KN library used by our platforms, so I do all of my development in Intellij as I’m only writing kotlin with no platforms. If I’m testing our library in a particular platform app, then I use the individual platform’s toolchains to build the app with our MPP lib (Android->AS, iOS->XCode, VS->Windows).

Thanks for your help James! I will continue the investigation and see how far can I go with it on my laptop (Windows OS).

What is your android experience at the moment?

3-5 years... why?

KMP is mostly about code sharing, so the best you can do without a mac is move as much code in an existing android app to a shared KMP library. It will require some re-architecture and some less than ideal design decisions than if it was a 100% android app. That is about as close as you can get to the multiplatform part without having access to the other platform.

Thanks, I will have in mind that advice!