Best Practices for Developing Amazing Kotlin Multiplatform Apps

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Shared Kotlin code lives in a single module compiled into platform artifacts (Jar/AAR for Android, framework/CocoaPod for iOS) while UI can be fully shared with Compose Multiplatform or limited to view layer only, demonstrated by a sample app that runs on Android (shows SDK 33), macOS and iOS (shows 17.0.1) with a toggle animation. Platform differences use expect/actual declarations for things like getPlatformName. Async patterns compare suspend functions, KMP native coroutines (cancellation support) and Touchlab’s Sky-style Swift interop for flows and async sequences.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:18What is Kotlin Multiplatform
3. 4:08Demo
4. 11:14Getting Started
5. 12:31Using Expect Actual
6. 19:59Cortines
7. 27:44Flows
8. 29:09iOS
9. 30:19Sky
10. 30:58Which approach should you choose
11. 32:30Call to action
12. 32:57Questions

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