Getting started with KMP
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Overview of Kotlin Multiplatform essentials with concrete tooling and outcomes: environment setup uses KDoctor CLI and Android Studio/Fleet plugins, templates from kmp.jetbrains.com produce ready projects, and dependency choices include ktor, coroutines, SQLDelight, multiplatform-settings, Koin. Platform interop uses the expect/actual mechanism; demo shares a greeting and UUID generator that run on Android and iOS via generated Objective‑C bindings and a composable UI built with Compose Multiplatform, with the ecosystem claiming roughly ~2,000 libraries and several production apps.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Kotlin Multiplatform intro
- 4:20Setting up Kotlin Multiplatform environment
- 9:15Project structure & expect-actual
- 15:27Kotlin Multiplatform ecosystem overview
- 16:31Compose Multiplatform
- 20:03KMP IDEs & tooling
- 21:06Performance vs native
- 23:14Q&A 1
- 26:43Q&A 2
- 30:20Q&A 3
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