The ever increasing convergence of native iOS and Android mobile development
summary
Argues that native iOS and Android are converging through concrete features: modern languages that read similarly, declarative UIs implemented as SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, and structured concurrency via Kotlin coroutines vs Swift async/await. Shows runnable samples (BikeShare, People in Space, chip‑8 emulator, watch widgets) that share non‑UI logic with Kotlin Multiplatform and KMP native coroutines, map Flow to async sequences, run parallel tasks with async let / awaitAll, and demonstrate feature parity like navigation, charts and bottom sheets.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:50Key milestones in convergence
- 4:16Language similarities between Kotlin and Swift
- 6:02Declarative UI frameworks comparison
- 9:32Navigation and UI components alignment
- 13:25Structured concurrency in both platforms
- 19:45Kotlin Multiplatform and shared code
- 27:06Conclusion and future possibilities
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