You're reading from Simplifying Application Development with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Write robust native applications for iOS and Android efficiently

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812580

Length 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Robert Nagy

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 - Getting Started with Multiplatform Mobile Development Using Kotlin

2. Chapter 1: The Battle Between Native, Cross-Platform, and Multiplatform FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring the Three Compilers of Kotlin Multiplatform

4. Chapter 3: Introducing Kotlin for Swift Developers

5. Section 2 - Code Sharing between Android and iOS

6. Chapter 4: Introducing the KMM Learning Project

7. Chapter 5: Writing Shared Code

8. Chapter 6: Writing the Android Consumer App

9. Chapter 7: Writing an iOS Consumer App

10. Section 3 - Supercharging Yourself for the Next Steps

11. Chapter 8: Exploring Tips and Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Integrating KMM into Existing Android and iOS Apps

13. Chapter 10: Summary and Your Next Steps

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up the iOS app

The heavy lifting is done for us by the Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) plugin we discussed in Chapter 4, Introducing the KMM Learning Project.

If you open the iosApp.xcodeproj file in the iosApp module with Xcode and open the Build Phases tab for the iosApp target, under the Run Script phase, you should be able to see the following command:

./gradlew :shared:embedAndSignAppleFrameworkForXcode

This is an integrational task that, as the name suggests, embeds and signs a generated Apple framework from the shared code. This task is visible only from Xcode and can't be used from the command-line interface (CLI). The task is illustrated in the following screenshot and you can read more about it at https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/07/multiplatform-gradle-plugin-improved-for-connecting-kmm-modules/:

Figure 7.1 – embedAndSignAppleFrameworkForXcode build phase in Xcode

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