Shipping a Typical Android Client Multiplatform: The Practitioner’s Path (Part 1)

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This talk describes porting the real-world Android GitLab client GitFox to Kotlin Multiplatform. It explains the challenges encountered when converting a production app (already on Google Play) and the practical approach of extracting all non-UI logic into a multiplatform SDK so that the core can be reused on other platforms.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 14:36Planning migration
3. 28:59Migrating libraries
4. 39:29Shared model extraction
5. 53:43Browser debugging
6. 1:03:41Final structure & Q&A

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