compose

What problem does it solve?

It centralizes UI design across Android, iOS, desktop, and web by enabling a single Kotlin Multiplatform Compose-based UI codebase, reducing duplication and ensuring consistent UX.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Shared UI components and themes: build reusable composables, typography, colors, and resource handling that work across all platforms.
• Platform adaptations: provide expect/actual APIs and platform-specific UI patterns while maintaining a unified codebase.
• Resource management: centralize images, fonts, and strings for all targets, simplifying updates and localization.
• Use Case: when shipping a multiplatform app (e.g., messaging or dashboard), reuse the same UI primitives and styles on Android, iOS, and desktop to speed development and maintain consistency.

Quick Start

• Create a Kotlin Multiplatform module with commonMain, androidMain, iosMain, and desktopMain and wire dependencies for Compose runtime, foundation, material3, and resources.
• Implement shared UI patterns in src/commonMain/kotlin and reference platform-specific implementations only where needed.
• Example: start by defining a shared Button, Card, and Theme in commonMain, then progressively add platform-specific tweaks.