Sebastian introduces the new co-host of the podcast, in a special episode recorded on location at droidcon New York! Joined by Russell Wolf, author of the multiplatform-settings library, we discuss the conference, different code sharing approaches for Kotlin Multiplatform, and how to build great multiplatform libraries.

• droidcon New York
  • When sharing isn’t caring: Using platform-specific code in Kotlin Multiplatform (Russell’s talk)
  • Compose Multiplatform on iOS: On the Road to Stable (Seb’s talk)
  • Composing an API the *right* way (Márton’s talk)
• The deprecated Accompanist WebView implementation for Jetpack Compose
• russhwolf/multiplatform-settings on GitHub
• Kotlin Multiplatform database libraries
  • Room
  • SQLDelight
• Dependency injection libraries
  • Koin
  • Kotlin-inject
• ViewModel for Kotlin Multiplatform

Hosts:

• Sebastian Aigner
  • Website
• Márton Braun
  • Website

Guest:

• Russell Wolf
  • GitHub
  • Twitter

Timestamps 0:00 Intro at home 2:02 Intro at droidcon NYC 4:23 Russell’s talk topic 8:14 Code sharing approaches 12:28 Wrapping native APIs 16:18 Attempted segue 16:35 Designing reusable APIs 18:02 Actual segue 18:14 multiplatform-settings 20:23 Supported platforms 24:05 SharedPreferences challenges 26:20 Observable preferences 29:51 Secure storage 30:55 Windows again 31:36 Library code as reference 33:15 Testable library code 35:05 Initializing a KMP library 38:18 Database libraries 40:55 Dependency injection 44:40 Outro