Hello, Today’s tutorial will discuss the key differences between Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform, Also known as KMP. JetBrains offers both Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform solutions for developing cross-platform applications. They have the same goal but follow different approaches with different usage cases. So let’s dive into it.
Kotlin Multiplatform vs Compose Multiplatform Key Differences
What is Kotlin Multiplatform KMP?
JetBrains offers the Kotlin multiplatform framework for creating applications on various platforms Android, iOS, Desktop apps, Webapps & Server apps. In KMP, users can share business logic, data model class codes, and other components across the platform and the UI code is platform-specific.
What is Compose Multiplatform?
Kotlin Compose Multiplatform is a UI framework built to use Kotlin Jetpack compose UI and native features to develop multiplatform compose apps for Android, iOS, desktop, and web apps. It allows us to create UI with Jetpack compose components for all the platforms. This means we have to write the UI code and it will work the same on all platforms. We can also write platform-specific code for each platform and it will automatically invoke in each platform.
Conclusion:
Bot Kotlin multiplatform and Compose multiplatform follow a different approach. But it’s up to us how we want to do our coding. If we love the native part and do love in native code then Kotlin multiplatform is best for us but If we want to try something new where our UI codebase is the same throughout the platforms then Compose multiplatform would be best option for us.
