Building KMP Libraries: The RevenueCat Story
Description
Sebastian and Márton discuss building KMP libraries with Jay Shortway, the author of RevenueCat’s Kotlin Multiplatform SDK for in-app purchases.
Resources:
- RevenueCat KMP SDK
- How we built the RevenueCat SDK for Kotlin Multiplatform
- Hybrid SDK Architecture at RevenueCat
- ttypic/swift-klib-plugin on GitHub
- RevenueCat/purchases-kmp on GitHub
- Consider moving `Instant` and `Clock` to the standard library · Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime
- RevenueCat openings
Hosts:
Guest:
- Joop Korteweg – Twitter
Timeline:
(0:00 ) Intro
(0:44 ) What’s RevenueCat
(4:00 ) In-app purchases are hard
(7:22 ) The multiplatform SDK
(12:44 ) The demand for KMP
(16:30 ) Hiring and team structure
(18:42 ) SDKs for any framework
(21:27 ) Building on native SDKs
(23:45 ) Improving iOS linking
(24:54 ) The SDK is on GitHub
(26:05 ) Benefits of building on native
(28:18 ) Designing a common API
(33:21 ) Add-on modules for SDKs
(37:30 ) Instant in the standard library
(38:04 ) Returning results from the API
(39:53 ) API design decisions
(44:57 ) Codegen opportunities
(45:48 ) The best things about KMP
(47:07 ) KMP improvements wishlist
(48:28 ) The KMP journey
(49:45 ) Wrap-up
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