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Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Is Dead. Long Live Kotlin Multiplatform
About the deprecation of the Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) term
During his keynote at Droidcon Berlin 2023, Hadi Hariri announced an update that has now become the official guideline. From now on, the mobile development aspect of Kotlin Multiplatform will no longer be referred to as a separate product called "Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM)." Instead, we will use the unified term "Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)."
Previously, when you visited the following URL: https://kotlinlang.org/lp/mobile/, you would be greeted with some facts about Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile. This quickly gave the feeling that Kotlin Multiplatform and this framework's “mobile version” were separate entities. When visiting the web-archive version of the official Kotlin Multiplatform documentation for developing mobile apps, even here, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile was introduced as its own SDK:
Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) is an SDK designed to simplify the development of cross-platform mobile applications. You can share common code between iOS and Android apps and write platform-specific code only where it’s necessary. Common use cases for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile include implementing a native UI or working with platform-specific APIs.
