Ben is a seasoned Senior Product Engineer at Ditto where he has been instrumental in developing SDKs for Android, Swift, .NET, and spearheading the creation of new SDKs for Java, .NET MAUI and visionOS. He previously worked at Kaiser Permanente as a Chief iOS Engineer leading a team building iOS and Android libraries for medical apps.
Ben Chatelain
Senior Engineer, Android SDKs @ Ditto
Using Rust in Your Next KMP App
When building an app for KMP, Kotlin provides powerful features and tooling to enhance the developer experience. But sometimes it is necessary to go beyond what Kotlin offers.
In this talk, we will cover the process of using the Rust programming language as the core of an Android app, as well as the reasons why you might want to do this. We will also go over some of the speed bumps we encountered along the way while bridging Rust to iOS and Android using Kotlin Multplatform.
No prior experience with Rust is necessary.