Mastering Kotlin

Leveraging multiplatform libraries

We've now seen several examples of how to write and share common Kotlin code. However, if you're building a real application today, you likely don't want to build everything from scratch. You're probably going to need things such as networking, serialization, settings, and dependency injection. You might want to leverage reactive programming paradigms, or use common tools such as Firebase. For these situations, it's of great benefit to have third-party libraries available that you can rely on for multiplatform implementations.

As of today, the third-party library ecosystem for Kotlin multiplatform is pretty limited. Because the technology is relatively new, there aren't many options out there yet. However, ...