David has more than 10 years in mobile development, and has spent the last few years building libraries consumed by Android, iOS and Web teams.
David Taylor
Principal Software Engineer at Juul Labs
Simplified Swift Multiplatform Integration
Some platform specific Apple APIs are only available as Swift modules. Lets take advantage of Cocoapods to integrate Swift code directly into our project and build a Multiplatform library with a pure Kotlin interface over the underlying platform specifics. We then take this further, and learn how to structure a Swift project to consume the published Kotlin library.
Key Takeaways and Learning Points:
- Integrating different languages in a single library is not as difficult as it seems
- Consuming Swift from Kotlin and vice-versa opens up a lots of cross platform code sharing
- Kotlin native interop is with Obj-C, this is a constraint not a blocker for Swift interop
- See details on how to setup Gradle tooling for a smooth workflow