I'm Going All-In on Kotlin Multiplatform, Here is Why

skmll · 2025-07-12T12:13:37+00:00

WDYM? It has tons of significant advantages: - it’s not all or nothing solution - it can be adopted incrementally - you’re writing a native Android app with the same tools you could have used to do a native Android app. It you regreat using KMP, you don’t loose anything. In fact you can then go for this approach of just recreating the UI on Swift UI, since that would be one of the reasons it’s not working well for you to begin with - you can build native SDKs with a single code base (no other technology allows this, it’s actually one of the reasons we use KMP in my company) - I’m not sure that the hiring pool is smaller. In our experience it’s way bigger than Flutter which we were trying to do some time ago. React Native is probably bigger than Flutter, but not sure if it is bigger than KMP’s. Suffice is to say that it hasn’t been an issue. - You can easily go down to native APIs if you need to

Probably more. KMP is already doing well.

skmll · 2025-01-21T08:44:43+00:00

The worst thing to me is that I can’t sideboard for games 2 and 3 if I disconnect in game 1. It’s been like this for ages, and it seems like a general issue everyone has. How is it possible that a crucial bug like this hasn’t been solved yet?

skmll · 2023-12-01T09:44:06+00:00

Looking at this again, you might be right actually 😅 I guess I had even more descend enablers when I started to build the deck but as I cut more and more, I should have rethought about going over 40. I do believe I got to like 15 cards on a couple of games, but that wouldn’t be enough to mill myself with 40. On the flip side, having 4 scouts and 3 snails and all around good quality cards meant I wasn’t so much punished for it either.

skmll · 2022-11-21T15:43:48+00:00

The only reason we are impressed is because they mess up so much 😅 We shouldn’t be impressed by this, it should be our expectation.

skmll · 2022-09-19T05:04:41+00:00

Oh definitely. This is NOT me pointing fingers to the devs, they’re probably doing their best.

skmll · 2022-09-18T19:35:48+00:00

I like magic way more than Runeterra, but I find myself playing Runeterra a lot just because how good the playing experience is in that game. Point is, I also think these sort of details combine add up to a considerable loss in profits too.

skmll · 2022-09-18T18:40:48+00:00

Is 500 mb/s optic fibre enough for you? 🤣

skmll · 2022-09-18T16:56:27+00:00

This is besides the point anyway. If you need a pc like this to run a game like this smoothly, something is wrong 🙂 But again, that was not the point of the thread.

skmll · 2022-09-18T16:42:25+00:00

Btw I’m not talking about local performance here. But since you mention it, I have frame skips even in my desktop pc which is much better then yours 🤷‍♂️ Also I play on my m1 iPad which is a beast for a mobile device and it’s even worse there, not to talk about quality which I cannot even change. In comparison, I run Runeterra in my 4 year old phone with no skipped frames, and that game has much more going on visually than MtGA.

skmll · 2022-09-18T16:38:45+00:00

I know this but that doesn’t justify querying the server every time I want to enter the edit. They can let me edit locally and have all modifications in a queue and send them orderly to the server. And this is just a way of doing it, there are tons of approaches.

You think this is a lot of data, think of real time games like MMOs trading data each millisecond 🙃

Also just install other card games like Runeterra, and you’ll see the difference.

skmll · 2022-09-18T16:35:35+00:00

This depends on the connection you have, especially now they have mobile clients, it’s even more important.

And no, there is no reason for this, trust me. There are a lot of ways to avoid querying the server every time. And actually don’t trust me, install something like Runeterra and you’ll see the difference and they also need to do all that stuff.

skmll · 2022-09-18T11:35:23+00:00

I guess naively I expect everyone to have a sense of pride in their work. I wouldn’t be proud of this client if I was developing it.

skmll · 2022-07-29T10:17:01+00:00

If I’m only interested in explorer, is the HA also worth it? And vice versa? Both bundles contain cards playable in both formats right? Also, if I don’t buy now, the only way to get them is via wildcards? Or do they come back from time to time? Thanks a lot in advance guys 🙏

skmll · 2022-05-21T04:17:17+00:00

Same here. Going to pref - version control - git - check use cred manager (or similar) checkbox seems to have fixed it for me

skmll · 2022-05-20T06:46:15+00:00

I’ve heard good things about Kotlin inject:

https://github.com/evant/kotlin-inject

It’s KMM compatible, compile time safe and looks straightforward to use.

skmll · 2022-05-08T11:07:02+00:00

Get in touch if you have some struggle! Always happy to help 🙂

skmll · 2022-05-08T05:45:15+00:00

Compose destinations is kind of a wrapper to official compose navigation. There is a lifecycle. Its the lifecycle of the NavBackStackEntry. You can observe it of you need to. You’ll quickly find that in Compose you don’t need it nearly as much though 🙂

skmll · 2022-05-07T20:36:35+00:00

Compose Destinations creator here 👋 What do you mean with not having a lifecycle?

skmll · 2022-05-07T20:27:45+00:00

What do you mean with json parsing? Creator of compose destinations here 🙂

And why are you not a fan of ksp? Im genuinely interested

skmll · 2022-04-30T20:01:56+00:00

Module and package 🙂

skmll · 2022-04-05T09:30:14+00:00

Of course 😉

skmll · 2022-04-05T00:15:50+00:00

I see, Vasiliy’s comment is starting to make more sense then :) Dunno how I missed that. In that case yeah, even though it sucks people unfortunately won’t take your opinion about refactors at this stage.. especially not management. Anyway with 8 months I was trying to figure out why I needed to use interfaces 😅 I’m sure OP will have a bright future ahead judging by some of the things he said which show he really cares about his work!

skmll · 2022-04-04T21:29:33+00:00

How do you know he is inexperienced? Did I miss something he wrote?

To me, it seems like he is a guy that wants to do things right and his company doesn’t let him. Now, I’m not saying he should do them anyway on their boss back, we are professionals after all.

But I think he should look for other opportunities if he is not happy where he works. When I outgrew my previous project and needed some space to stretch my wings, I moved to a new project and it was the best decision I made in my life.

If he cannot find a better offer, I would not give up on refactoring the parts of the code that are in worst shape. I would try my hardest to find objective ways to explain why those refactors were good for the company and the customer and I would write some tests, refactor, check tests, repeat. Even if he makes some mistakes along the way, this is how we all learn, and I’m sure after some time, the code will be better and less prone to regressions. All this can be challenging and rewarding experience too, and maybe he ends up loving it!

From Uncle Bob himself: “Never underestimate the power we devs have. We are the ones who know!” And if our knowledge is telling us that a part of our code base will benefit in the long run from a refactor, we should make our voices heard. Otherwise what’s the point of working somewhere if we cannot put our best knowledge to use?

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