What you'll learn

Mobile teams often duplicate validation, calculations, and application rules across their Android and iOS applications, increasing maintenance effort and the risk of inconsistent behavior. In this course, Get Started with Kotlin Multiplatform, you’ll gain the ability to create, understand, and run a basic Kotlin Multiplatform project for Android and iOS. First, you’ll explore how KMP works, how it differs from native-only development and shared-UI frameworks, and how to decide which parts of an application should be shared. Next, you’ll create and examine a KMP project containing shared Kotlin code and native Android and iOS applications. Finally, you’ll build a shared workout session planner, call it from both platforms, add platform-specific behavior with expect and actual, and diagnose common setup and integration problems. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform needed to build and validate a basic shared-code project and continue into shared business logic, shared services, UI strategy, and application modernization.