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Touchlab @touchlab.co · 27d

🎉 2 years of SKIE!

Shipping cross-platform apps is hard enough. Interop shouldn’t be. From flows & suspend functions to automatic CInterop, #SKIE has powered apps at powersync.com, mapbox.com, and more.

piannaf.bsky.social celebrates its impact > 💬 your story too! www.linkedin.com/posts/justin...

Touchlab Celebrates 2 Years of SKIE, Improving Swift-Kotlin Interop | Justin Mancinelli posted on the topic | LinkedIn

🎉 Celebrating 2 Years of SKIE! This month marks two years since Touchlab open sourced SKIE (Swift Kotlin Interface Enhancer). We set out to make #Swift+#Kotlin interop smoother and the #KMP developer...

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jul 11

A late, but sincere thank you to the folks at @mdevcamp.bsky.social! 🙌

Our own Filip Dolnik gave a packed end-of-session talk on #KotlinMultiplatform for iOS devs. Swift vs Kotlin, IDEs, build tools, debugging, and more. #mdevcamp

🎥 : slideslive.com/39043387/kot...

Filip Dolník · Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS developers · SlidesLive

Professional Conference Recording

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jul 9

Droidcon NYC 2025 = ✅

Thanks to everyone who attended our talks, chatted #KMP, and kept it real at the booth, and to @gregfawson.bsky.social and the whole #dcnyc25 team for putting together another successful event.

Excited for what’s ahead in native mobile dev. Let’s keep building!

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jun 18

Kotlin/Native debugging in Xcode? It’s tricky 👉 but it doesn’t have to be.

Catch Touchlab’s @tadeas.bsky.social at #dcnyc25 next Thurs @ 2:35pm for a deep dive into effective LLDB debugging + native binaries.

If you’ve touched #KMP on iOS, you shouldn’t miss this.

#KotlinNative #iOSDev

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · Jun 17

🗓 Last chance to share your feedback!
Have you tried the new Kotlin Multiplatform plugin in IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio?

👉 Tell us what you think in a short survey (under 7 minutes): kotl.in/kmppluginsrv
Your insights mean a better plugin for everyone!

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jun 17

Apple’s Liquid Glass📱 is here!

⚠️ Shared UI breaks when platforms shift
✅ Native UI with #KotlinMultiplatform is built to flex

DM us for code-sharing strategies that survive change!
touchlab.co/contact-us

#KMP #MobileStrategy #LiquidGlass #Material3 #mobileAI #NativeUI #iOSDev #AndroidDev

Contact Touchlab

We are the Kotlin Multiplatform experts. Touchlab's Production-ready Kotlin Multiplatform solutions make KMP better for you.

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jun 16

Stay tuned for more highlights from androiddevs.bsky.social #Android Developers Backstage podcast: #KotlinMultiplatform: Have your code and eat it too -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7O...

Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too

YouTube video by Android Developers

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jun 16

What's the killer feature of #KotlinMultiplatform according to Google's Yigit Boyar - yboyar.bsky.social?

"𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴-𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘗𝘐𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘒𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦."

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Jun 2

We’ve learned a lot about scaling for mobile. @namnum.bsky.social will talk about why “second-platform thinking” (web → mobile, iOS → Android) should start early - even before your AI-coded MVP ships.

🗓 Tues 6/3, 5:30pm
📍 Building AI Infra Systems for Vibe Coders
🎟️ partiful.com/e/NRjzYND0fu...

RSVP to Building AI Infra Systems for Vibe Coders | Partiful

An evening of talks, real systems thinking, and good vibes for developers building AI-native, fullstack apps. Hear from founders, engineers, and early builders who are shipping the backends behind mo...

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 30

🎤 Catch our own Filip Dolnik at #mDevCamp2025 – Tues, June 3 @ 18:05!

He's flipping the script on #KotlinMultiplatform with a talk for iOS devs:
👉 Kotlin vs Swift
👉 Xcode vs Gradle
👉 Debugging KMP
👉 Calling Kotlin from Swift

Details: mdevcamp.eu#filip-dolnik...

mDevCamp 2025: 11th International Conference for Mobile Developers

Join the 11th International Conference for Mobile Developers on June 2-3, 2025, at Holešovice Market. Connect, learn, and experience the future of mobile development!

mdevcamp.eu

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · May 23

There are a lot of amazing KMP talks coming out right now but here is our talk from I/O!

Dustin and I give an update on our latest KMP releases and then explain the build setup for an Android KMP app.

youtu.be/gP5Y-ct6QXI?...

Demystify KMP builds and structure

YouTube video by Android Developers

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 23

🚨 Oh Canada! 🇨🇦

@piannaf.bsky.social will be at SOLD OUT #CTOCraftCon next week—connecting with leaders on AI, scaling teams, shared code, modern mobile architecture, org design, and everything in between.

Going? Let’s chat! 👋

conference.ctocraft.com/toronto-2025/

CTO Craft Con: Toronto 2025

CTO Craft Con will bring together over 200 Chief Technology Officers and other senior technology leaders from the most exciting start-ups, scale-ups, unicorns, and big tech companies to elevate their ...

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PowerSync @powersync.com · May 19

A shared Kotlin core.

A native Swift interface.

Steven Ontong shares how we built our Swift SDK with SKIE.

www.powersync.com/blog/buildi...

Building a Swift SDK with SKIE: Lessons in Bridging Kotlin and Swift

This post covers the journey of building our Swift SDK, explaining some of the design decisions behind it.

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · May 23

SKIE v0.10.2 just released with support for Kotlin 2.1.20 and 2.1.21

btw will be talking about SKIE in my #KotlinConf talk later this afternoon 😀
github.com/touchlab/SKI...

Release 0.10.2 · touchlab/SKIE

Change log

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 23

📣 Today/Friday #KotlinConf
🕙 10:15 – 11:00
👉🏼 Hall D2
🗣️ @tadeas.bsky.social

Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 22

Don’t miss it! 🎤

Tadeas Kriz dives into native dependency headaches at #KotlinConf tomorrow:

✅ JVM vs Native loading
✅ CocoaPods vs SPM
✅ What really happens at runtime

If you're shipping #KMP to iOS, this one’s for you.

🔗 kotlinconf.com/speakers/969...

Tadeas Kriz | KotlinConf 2025, May 21–23, Copenhagen

KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 22

Don’t miss it! 🎤

Tadeas Kriz dives into native dependency headaches at #KotlinConf tomorrow:

✅ JVM vs Native loading
✅ CocoaPods vs SPM
✅ What really happens at runtime

If you're shipping #KMP to iOS, this one’s for you.

🔗 kotlinconf.com/speakers/969...

Tadeas Kriz | KotlinConf 2025, May 21–23, Copenhagen

KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.

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Nate Ebel @n8ebel.bsky.social · Apr 14

This @touchlab.co post has been super useful in getting up to speed with adaptive layout apis for Compose Multiplatform

Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform touchlab.co/adaptive-lay...

Adaptive Layouts in Compose Multiplatform

Adaptive Layouts is a way of adapting your UI to fit different display sizes on Android, and it's now available for Compose Multiplatform.

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 22

📣 We’re thrilled to welcome Block & Meta to the #KotlinFoundation! 🙌

Both have been champions of #KMP in real-world adoption, and their support is a huge win for the ecosystem. Touchlab is proud to be a Silver Member, let’s keep building the future of Kotlin together! kotlinfoundation.org

Home

Kotlin Foundation – protect, promote and advance the development of the Kotlin programming language.

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Ivan “CLOVIS” Canet @ivcanet.bsky.social · May 18

Will you be at #KotlinConf and are working on an open-source library—or love one you'd love to share?

During both days, at the noon pauses, at the Kotlin Foundation booth, you'll be able to talk about your favorite library for a few minutes!

Register here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Kotlinconf 2025 - Project Demos at the Kotlin Foundation Booth

Kotlinconf 2025 - Kotlin Project Demos At Kotlinconf, we will be hosting 10-minute project demos right at the Kotlin Foundation Booth! Every conference participant is welcome to present on ANY open ...

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 21

Fresh off big #KotlinMultiplatform news @ #GoogleIO, Google’s showing up strong at #KotlinConf.

🎤 Production insights from Google Docs
🧠 Deep dives on memory, API design & IDEs
🧑‍💻 Live codelabs in Room 173

📅 kotlinconf.com/schedule/?day=2025-05-23
📹 Main track is live-streamed ➡️ kotl.in/conf25-live

Schedule | KotlinConf 2025, May 21–23, Copenhagen

KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 20

Touchlab is the ground at #GoogleIO where #KotlinMultiplatform made headlines, and we’re here for it! 🚀

✅ Stable Jetpack libs (Room, DataStore, Paging)
🛠️ New #KMP tooling in Android Studio
📱 Google Docs on iOS runs KMP in production

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/andr...

Android’s Kotlin Multiplatform announcements at Google I/O and KotlinConf 25

Android's Kotlin and KMP efforts announced at Google I/O 2025 and KotlinConf 2025 include new Jetpack library support, tools improvements, and more.

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · May 19

🎉 The new Kotlin Multiplatform for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio!

✨ Integrated New Project wizard
🔍 Preflight checks
🔧 Multiplatform run configurations
🧭 Cross-language support
🎨 Compose Multiplatform support
🔥 Compose Hot Reload

Learn more
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

Kotlin Multiplatform Tooling: Now in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio | The Kotlin Blog

The new KMP plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio simplifies every part of the KMP experience, from project setup to Compose UI previews.

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 19

A must-watch for anyone still needing reassurance that #KMP is the future of mobile development!

Our ears were burning (in the best way possible)! Lots of great #SKIE chatter on this month's Android Developers Backstage podcast episode.

Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · May 8

We have a new episode of the ADB podcast up, this time covering KMP -- Kotlin multiplatform. Yigit Boyar (@yboyar.bsky.social), Dustin Lam and I discuss library support, developer experience and a lot more. I found it fascinating, but Yigit's dog fell asleep...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7O...

Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too

YouTube video by Android Developers

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · May 15

Integrate Linear with your AI workflow!

Linear MCP integration:
🛠️ Solid auth + error handling
🏷️ Proper team/proj/priority tagging
⚡ Way smoother workflow
✅ Detailed, structured output

Use w/ Goose, Claude, Cursor & more: touchlab.co/linear-mcp-f...
#Alintegration #Linear

Linear MCP Integration for AI Agents

Touchlab’s enhanced Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for Linear allows your AI agent to interact directly with Linear, streamlining workflows and saving you time. Building upon existing ...

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Touchlab @touchlab.co · Apr 16

Fresh from the Kotlin #ComposeMultiplatform community: Storytale is a new plugin to preview Composables in isolation—think Storybook for Compose. @kevinschildhorn.bsky.social breaks down what it does, how it works, what’s promising (and what’s not). touchlab.co/previewing-s...

Taking a Look at Storytale

Storytale is a Gradle plugin that generates interactive component libraries for your UI. We'll go over how it works and how it can help your design system.

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