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How's your experience with Compose/Kotlin multiplatform?


If you use either, how is your experience with the technology? Do you use it in production? Also feel free to share your experience if you evaluated it and choose to go with something else ultimately

Compose multiplatform is new but seems good with many projects on GitHub. I found it more attractive than flutter but previous release announcemnts didn't get much attention here, the top one I could find has like 3 comments

  👤 scosman Accepted Answer ✓
I did an experiment with Kotlin Multiplatform.

1) Tooling for compiling/building was great

2) Most libraries I needed assumed Android Kotlin, and realized the multi-platform ecosystem is much much much smaller than the Kotlin ecosystem. Almost none of the big projects had support/CI/tests on multiplatform (even though most could). Lots of little dependancy bugs to chase down. This part was a deal breaker. Maybe it's gotten better, but this was only a year ago.

Went with go mobile instead. Amazing ecosystem (and everything just works), mediocre tooling (I've had to patch the project).