Hi folks...I am running a Kotlin Everywhere in Sep...

# multiplatform

[Mike Wolfson]

Hi folks...I am running a Kotlin Everywhere in September, and was hoping to support a multi-platform codelab. I am an Android dev, and was hoping to do a simple iOS to Android multiplatform codelab but don't know of any online...does anybody have a suggestions for the simplest tutorial, or codelab I can find for this?

FWIW, the codelabs supplied by Google and Jetbrains for K\E are "Intro to Kotlin Native" and then "Kotlin\JVM and Kotlin\JS).

I want to show sharing simple business logic between and iOS and an Android client, would love a super simple codelab/example of this.

[Marko Mitic]

I'm looking for the exact same thing 😄

[kpgalligan]

I brought this up to the k/e brain trust. Lack of simple native mobile workshop. We started talking about contributing one but talk didn’t get too far. Right now we are working on a series of short blog posts. The first one is getting set up and getting shared code compiling in five minutes. We’re talking about adding small ones after that, like adding a library, doing native code with expect/actual. That kind of thing. Is there anything in particular you’d want to demonstrate?

[Mike Wolfson]

I will also share my thoughts about getting this resource with the appropriate ppl.

[hhariri]

@kpgalligan who’s the brain trust? 🙂

@Mike Wolfson have you checked out the new stuff we’re working on regarding hands-on at https://play.kotlinlang.org/hands-on

[Ryan Perkins]

The Multiplatform codelab is JVM/JS, while he's looking for something demonstrating mobile

[kpgalligan]

@hhariri To be more accurate, there was an email thread with Florina and Wojtek about K/E and Droidcon a couple months ago. I mentioned something about adding a workshop for KMP and mobile, among several other topics, but then the summer got a little crazy and I forgot about that thread till Mike’s message.

[Mike Wolfson]

I am going to ask Florina and Wojtek too...in the Kotlin Everywhere Organizers Discuss Channel.

[Mike Wolfson]

I am looking for Android/iOS multi-platform, and the current resources really don't address that (as discussed).

[hhariri]

Ah sorry, yes, the iOS and Mobile one haven’t been published yet but they’re in the works.

[Marko Mitic]

@hhariri can we contribute?

[hhariri]

To the hands-on? Yes. We’ve made it all open source and it’s available on GitHub. We’re still refining the process, but for sure. That’s the intention.

[hhariri]

https://github.com/kotlin-hands-on

[hhariri]

https://github.com/kotlin-hands-on/hands-on

[hhariri]

And as you can see there are some TODO’s in there 🙂. We’re planning on adding automatic compilation checks, etc.

[Marko Mitic]

Contributing entire original hands on lab seems like a big first step, could someone assist on WIP lab? Even having some suggested labs/topics would be helpful.

[hhariri]

Let me talk to the folks internally and see what we could do in this regard. But in the meantime, if you see any issues, etc. please feel free to send a PR.

[Mike Wolfson]

Thanks for this Hadi, (sorry the discussion got split to the other channel).

[Marko Mitic]

I'm considering taking my old PoC Android/iOS/JVM-server KMP app, ironing it out and adding JS (and maybe Native console client) as example of how much of the codebase can be shared. Could use that for local K/E talk

[tylerwilson]

I would love to see slightly more advanced mobile examples. The basic Android/iOS is okay, but day 2 will go beyond this very quickly. For example:
- Add an API call via Ktor
- Add the requisite Models for any API calls
- Add the requisite coroutines support
- Add the tests needed for the Models and APIs added

[Marko Mitic]

Here's something I've done some time ago https://github.com/marco89nish/mitwit
Ktor on client+server, coroutines (missing actual iOS implementation, DB and tests)