Arkadii Ivanov

Published in ProAndroidDev

·Nov 17, 2021

Optimising CI build times of a Kotlin Multiplatform project

Kotlin Multiplatform supports different targets (platforms), which require different host operating systems for compilation. There are targets that can be compiled on any host OS, and there are targets that can be compiled only on a specific host OS. For example, Android and JVM targets can be compiled on any…

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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Published in Bumble Tech

·May 18, 2021

Writing Kotlin Parcelize compiler plugin for iOS

This article describes my experience writing a Kotlin compiler plugin. My primary goal was to create a Kotlin compiler plugin for iOS (Kotlin/Native) similar to Android’s kotlin-parcelize. The outcome is the new kotlin-parcelize-darwin plugin. Prologue Even though the main focus of this article is iOS, let’s take a step back and…

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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Published in ProAndroidDev

·Feb 3, 2021

A comprehensive thirty-line navigation for Jetpack/Multiplatform Compose

Navigation is an important part of almost every application. There is an official (first-party) navigation library for Jetpack Compose provided by Google. But it is only available on Android. Recently I published two articles that touch on the topic of navigation in Kotlin Multiplatform. The first one is “Decompose —…

Kotlin

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A comprehensive thirty-line navigation for Jetpack/Desktop Compose

Kotlin

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Published in ProAndroidDev

·Nov 16, 2020

Fully cross-platform Kotlin applications (almost)

In my last article “Decompose — experiments with Kotlin Multiplatform lifecycle-aware components and navigation”, I mentioned two cases when we can’t share code using Kotlin Multiplatform. The first one was navigation and the second one was UI. In that article we managed to share the navigation logic using the Decompose…

Multiplatform

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Fully cross-platform Kotlin applications (almost)

Multiplatform

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Published in ProAndroidDev

·Sep 25, 2020

Decompose — experiments with Kotlin Multiplatform lifecycle-aware components and navigation

Kotlin Multiplatform is a technology that enables code sharing between different platforms. It is completely up to developers how much of the code they want to share. But there are cases for which we just can’t write shared code, even if we would like to. One of the cases is…

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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Published in ProAndroidDev

·Sep 6, 2020

The defective AndroidX FragmentFactory

In this blog post I would like to express my disappointment in the AndroidX FragmentFactory. I will briefly describe what the FragmentFactory is, and why I think it is defective. I already tried to bring Google’s attention to this problem by opening an issue a year ago. But after quite…

Android

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Android

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Published in Bumble Tech

·Jul 28, 2020

MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 3 (3 of 3)

This is the concluding article in a series of three articles on MVI architectural pattern in Kotlin Multiplatform. …

Android

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MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 3 (3 of 3)

Android

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Published in Bumble Tech

·Jun 9, 2020

MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 2 (2 of 3)

This is the second in a series of three articles on MVI architectural pattern in Kotlin Multiplatform. In the article part 1 we reminded ourselves what MVI is and learned how to use it to write shared code using MVI. We defined simple abstractions like Store and View as well…

Android

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MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 2 (2 of 3)

Android

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Published in Bumble Tech

·Apr 17, 2020

MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 1 (1 of 3)

About a year ago I became interested in some new technology: Kotlin Multiplatform. Since then I have been actively experimenting in this area and promoting this technology within our company. One outcome, for example, is our Reaktive library — Reactive extensions for Kotlin Multiplatform. The story continues here: MVI in Kotlin…

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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Published in Bumble Tech

·May 10, 2019

Reaktive — a multiplatform library for reactive Kotlin

Reactive programming is really popular today not least because it has loads of plus points: the absence of what is called ‘callback hell’; a built-in mechanism for processing errors; and a functional programming style that reduces the likelihood of bugs occurring. …

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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