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Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 5:27 PMWhat kinds of libraries do you miss most in multiplatform?
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Nick
08/26/2020, 5:54 PMWhile there is #koin, it’s not currently working with kotlin 1.4 very well.
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aleksey.tomin
08/26/2020, 6:11 PM1. Standard logger
2. ktor-CIO client with SSL
3. ktor-CIO server (with SSL)
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bsimmons
08/26/2020, 6:30 PM+1 for the standard logger
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Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 6:31 PM@Nick what about Kodein?
Logging is a good point! Haven’t thought about that one.
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Nick
08/26/2020, 6:34 PMkodein works on mpp?? I thought it was just for android 🤯
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Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 6:36 PMYeah it’s multiplatform by now, thanks to
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OTOH writing DI properly isn’t too easy either 😅
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saket
08/26/2020, 7:47 PMIt’d be great if we had a basic library for reading and writing to files.
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Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 7:48 PM@saket like the vision of
kotlinx-ios
saket
08/26/2020, 7:49 PMyes, but
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Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 7:49 PMYup, vision. Doesn’t seem to have a high priority indeed 😞
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saket
08/26/2020, 7:50 PMThere’s also https://github.com/orangy/kotlinx-files but it hasn’t been updated in a while either.
I’ve been keeping an eye on https://github.com/caffeine-mgn/pw.binom.io
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Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 7:51 PMLot’s of stuff packed in one library 😮
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saket
08/26/2020, 7:54 PMthat is exactly why I get overwhelmed by it lol
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Big Chungus
08/26/2020, 8:28 PMFor logging there's logkat
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Thomas
08/26/2020, 8:35 PMStrings.ktm
Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 8:35 PM@Thomas what do you miss for Strings?
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Thomas
08/26/2020, 8:36 PMMultiplatform string resources. Currently I have a simple Gradle script that converts Android strings.xml to iOS localizable file, but a real multiplatform solution would be better
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Marc Knaup
08/26/2020, 8:39 PMAh, a string localization solution.
You could help build one on top of this: https://github.com/fluidsonic/fluid-locale/blob/master/sources/common/LocalizedValueResolver.kt
It’s basically for resolving a values based on a Locale w/ hierarchy in mind (
zh-Hant-CNzh-HantzhrootYou you could create a Gradle plugin to generate an even more efficient resolution like I do with country name localization:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluidsonic/fluid-i18n/master/modules/data-regions/sources/common/RegionNames_normal.generated.kt
It’s fun 😄
But we’d still have to add support for pluralization and placeholders based on Unicode standards & CLDR.
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gildor
08/27/2020, 3:22 AM• Resources
• Real compile-time DI (not service provider)
• Files
• Server
• Logging
• Good, official full-featured testing library, not kotlin-test
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Marc Knaup
08/27/2020, 9:39 AMRegarding DI you basically mean a compile-time check for whether dependencies will properly resolve at runtime?
Otherwise it's called parameters, isn't it?
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gildor
08/27/2020, 10:12 AMright
not sure what do you mean by “called parameters”
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Marc Knaup
08/27/2020, 10:15 AMBasically passing the dependencies as function or constructor parameters. That’s most basic compile-time DI, isn’t it? 🙂
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gildor
08/27/2020, 10:16 AMyes, manual dependency injection, you right
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saket
08/27/2020, 2:57 PMSomeone is working on a DI library that uses KSP: https://github.com/evant/kotlin-inject
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Marc Knaup
08/27/2020, 3:02 PMHaven't heard of ksp - sounds great!
Maybe I can make my JSON library easily multiplatform by that 😃
I also need a multiplatform KAPT replacement for my graphql library.
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Orhan Tozan
08/30/2020, 12:52 PMFor logging, I'm using https://github.com/AAkira/Napier for awhile now, works great.
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aleksey.tomin
08/30/2020, 1:24 PMI haven’t found macOS/minGW source code. Is it exists?
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rocketraman
02/11/2021, 6:33 PMFor logging, I started with Napier but switched to Kermit. Napier relies too much on objects (statics) and so was making things more difficult than necessary. https://github.com/touchlab/Kermit