Kotlin 1.4 Online Event, Day 3: Kotlin everywhere: Android, Mobile Multiplatform, Kotlin/JS
summary
Kotlin 1.4 updates matter: Android apps using Kotlin show 20 fewer crashes per user among the top 1,000, over 60% of Android pro developers use Kotlin and >70% of top apps include Kotlin; Google reports ~2 million lines in Kotlin and 60+ Kotlin apps internally. The release brings an IR compiler, Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) with 30–40% faster incremental compiles for some processors, explicit API mode, common reflection and new library work (Paging 3, DataStore, Jetpack Compose alpha), and Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile in alpha.
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- 0:00Start
- 12:01State of Kotlin in Android by Florina Muntenescu, Android Developer Advocate in Google
- 31:54Q&A with Florina Muntenescu on State of Kotlin in Android
- 46:21It's time for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile by Ekaterina Petrova, Developer Advocate in Kotlin
- 1:07:46Q&A with Ekaterina Petrova and Dmitry Savvinov on It's time for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
- 1:16:48Kotlin/JS in 1.4 and Beyond by Sebastian Aigner, Developer Advocate in Kotlin
- 1:39:11Q&A with Sebastian Aigner and Zalim Bashorov on Kotlin/JS in 1.4 and Beyond
- 1:49:39Diving into Kotlin Multiplatform by Dmitry Savvinov, Team Lead in Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
- 2:31:44Q&A for Day 3
