Going Native

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Claims conversion of ~80k lines and 60+ Android games to iOS in six months using Kotlin Native and ships to production with ~80% shared code. Uses expect/actual bridging for platform drawing audio and text, and interface callbacks implemented in Swift or Kotlin for view and touch integration. Hits practical gotchas: avoid mutable Kotlin object singletons, prefer Lists not Arrays, use weak refs to prevent iOS memory cycles and watch init ordering differences.

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" chapters (13)

1. 0:00Introduction
2. 6:24Demo
3. 10:08Terminology
4. 14:33Expects
5. 15:48Path Display
6. 18:37Interface
7. 22:28Back
8. 26:16Recap
9. 28:14Why Unity
10. 29:38Dont use objects
11. 31:44Application scoped object
12. 32:37Arrays vs Swift
13. 34:07Initialization order

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