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Kotlin/Native Tech Lead
Just one month ago, we released Jetpack Compose for Desktop Milestone 1, the first public iteration of our modern declarative UI framework. We were delighted about how the Kotlin community has embraced Compose for Desktop. It was awe-inspiring to see people bring their Android apps to the desktop, r…
Today, we are excited to present the first milestone release of Jetpack Compose for Desktop, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable. We invite you to take this technology preview out for a test drive, and we eagerly await your…
Summer may be almost over, but our Kotlin/Native team has been breaking a sweat to give you the Kotlin/Native v0.9 release... and here it is! Don't be fooled by the numbering – this is a major (and breaking) release of our compiler toolchain, Gradle plugin, and IDE plugin. Following are the most im…
We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.8! The focus of this release is on: safer concurrent programming extending the stdlib functionality better iOS development support. Also, numerous bug-fixes and optimizations were implemented in this release. AppCode and CLion Kotlin/Nativ…
We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.7, May Day edition! This release provides even smoother interoperability with Objective-C and Swift, memory management improvements, global program analysis and performance optimisations. Also numerous bugfixes and optimizations were implemente…
In this blog post we are discussing development of Kotlin/Native applications. Today we take a look on basic video player, using FFMPEG audio/video decoder and SDL2 for rendering. Hopefully, it will be useful guide for Kotlin/Native development enthusiasts and will explain intended mechanisms of usi…
We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.5, Christmas edition! This release adds support for using Kotlin/Native code from C, Objective-C and Swift, supports development using iOS simulator, along with LLVM 5 support and creating WebAssembly from Linux and Windows hosts. (more&helli…
We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.4, KotlinConf 2017 edition! This release adds support for accessing Objective-C APIs on iOS and macOS, WebAssembly target platform, as well as introduces major changes making app development in Kotlin/Native way easier. (more…)…
We're happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.3. We are going to the new lands! With the release of version v0.3 Windows is supported as both a compilation host and execution target, and Google Android devices as an execution target with native activities. So Windows API 'Hello World' may …
We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.2, a feature and bugfix update to Kotlin/Native Technology Preview. This update adds support for coroutines and cross-module inline functions support, along with bugfixes and improvements all over the place. This release includes samples showi…
