why everybody’s trying native with obj-c instead o...
# kotlin-nativec
chickenfresh
08/27/2018, 11:26 PMwhy everybody’s trying native with obj-c instead of swift?
With swift the only problem I faced was incompatibility with khttp (so I couldn’t work with REST), but everything else was fine
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louiscad
08/28/2018, 6:18 AMSwift runtime makes the apps bigger
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kpgalligan
08/28/2018, 11:03 AMkpgalligan
08/28/2018, 11:05 AMDownload size is under 10m, which is pretty good for iOS. Swift doesn’t add as much size as it used to. The releases are less frequent so you don’t really have to include runtime with you app. They’re on the phone already
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louiscad
08/28/2018, 12:00 PMIf they can include Swift runtime into iOS for apps to use, they may do it for Kotlin/Native too one day (if the releases get less frequent, though I doubt they would ever consider it under Tim Cook)
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kpgalligan
08/28/2018, 12:12 PMNo way that’s ever happening
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chickenfresh
08/28/2018, 11:24 PM@kpgalligan cheers for share, what library you use for http requests? I’m willing to start my own path with native soon, but unfortunately not many information can be found on the internet 😞
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kpgalligan
08/28/2018, 11:26 PMJust a simple get expect/actual for now. Ran into gradle issues with ktor, but now that conference is over ( 😞 ), going to update with latest libs and (hopefully soon) multithreaded coroutines.
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chickenfresh
08/28/2018, 11:26 PMhow do you face gradle problems? I’m still having some, changing versions didn’t work and I’ve came to conclusion that some libraries are simply incompatible with native
chickenfresh
08/28/2018, 11:27 PMMultithreaded on mobile? Sounds impressive tho
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kpgalligan
08/28/2018, 11:28 PMDidn't fix gradle issues with ktor, which is why I wasn't using it. Going to look at that soon (conference ended today, so going to sleep first)
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chickenfresh
08/28/2018, 11:30 PMah ok, hope one day kotlin native would become greater or at least stand on a same stage with android’s brother 🙂