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Building KMP Libraries: The RevenueCat Story
February 20, 2025
00:52:24
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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
(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