The Future of Android, Kotlin, and Everything
summary
Argues that Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) plus Compose lets teams incrementally add native UI on iOS and Android so there’s no rewrite “risk cliff,” cites a 2022 app shipped with Compose on iOS and a 2023 alpha → 2024 beta → 2025 roadmap, shows a live example using a wrapped iOS map view, and says large apps with many millions of MAUs are already rolling Compose in production; calls for filling missing libraries and community work to make 80/20 UI practical across apps.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome
- 10:52Android today
- 15:27Android complexity
- 17:35Native apps landscape
- 21:52Boring middle apps
- 23:18KMP and Compose Multiplatform
- 28:54Challenges ahead
- 33:11Call to action
- 37:47Web vs cross-platform
- 43:51Summary
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