Is it possible to use Channels from iOS in a multi...

# multiplatform

[Shameek Sarkar]

Is it possible to use Channels from iOS in a multiplatform project? Or anything equivalent to a rx stream?

[Jan Stoltman]

As far as I know, no. There is this library, but it doesn't look ready:
https://github.com/noheltcj/RxCommon

[Shameek Sarkar]

Thanks a lot 🙂.
Also, is it possible to use Channels in iOS?

[kpgalligan]

That library is not going to work, for sure.

[kpgalligan]

Channels, no. Coroutines on native are not multithreaded.

[kpgalligan]

I rolled a very basic implementation here for sqldelight: https://github.com/touchlab/DroidconKotlin/tree/master/sessionize/lib/src/commonMain/kotlin/co/touchlab/sessionize/architecture

[kpgalligan]

@basher may have a library coming soon, but I’m not sure about their timeline…

[basher]

Working on sharing our code for doing multi-threaded coroutine-based work. Maybe this month (hard to say for sure right now though)

[sunbreak]

Main thread Channel is supported. Multi-threaded is under development

[sunbreak]

"Channels provide a way to transfer a stream of values." according to https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/channels.html.
Without multi-threaded, it is still helpful to write concurrent logic