Does kotlin emit different bytecode for both android and desktop? Assuming both compile for the same...

# multiplatform

[Koneko Toujou]

Does kotlin emit different bytecode for both android and desktop? Assuming both compile for the same source and same target, and both compile the exact same class

[mbonnin]

Android will take the .class files and turn them into .dex (the format of the Android JVM)

[mbonnin]

But the initial .class files shouldn't be that different? (not sure about that last part but I don't see a strong reason why)

[Koneko Toujou]

Hmmm

[mbonnin]

You can open an apk in Android Studio, it'll show the .dex files inside (or you can just unzip it too)

[Koneko Toujou]

Yea

[Koneko Toujou]

As i have heard that ummm most bytecode analysers need special support for android

[Koneko Toujou]

Tho such analysers are typically memory heavy :(

[Andrey]

Tell me what exactly you want to do, I can help.

The bytecode is a bit more complicated than smali. But both of them are very easy to learn, except that the JVM is a stack machine and ART is a register machine.
You can easily convert one to the other.