What’s new in multiplatform Jetpack libraries

April 12, 2023

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Posted by Márton Braun, Developer Relations Engineer

To assist builders who’re already utilizing Kotlin Multiplatform for sharing enterprise logic throughout cell platforms, we beforehand launched experimental multiplatform previews of the Collections and DataStore Jetpack libraries, and we have been receiving nice suggestions from the neighborhood.

The multiplatform Collections and DataStore libraries at the moment are shifting from experimental developer previews to alpha releases, and can comply with the conventional launch cycle of Jetpack libraries. Annotations, a core Jetpack library, is now additionally obtainable for multiplatform.

Please notice that Kotlin Multiplatform continues to be in beta, subsequently the non-Android targets of those libraries don’t have Jetpack’s common stability ensures.

The alpha releases can be found from Google’s Maven repository. You may attempt them by including the next dependencies to your Kotlin Multiplatform mission:

val commonMain by getting {

    dependencies {

        implementation("androidx.annotation:annotation:1.7.0-alpha02")       
        implementation("androidx.assortment:assortment:1.3.0-alpha04")
        implementation("androidx.datastore:datastore-core-okio:1.1.0-alpha03")

implementation("androidx.datastore:datastore-preferences-core:1.1.0-alpha03") } }

The multiplatform DiceRoller pattern app has additionally been up to date to make use of the brand new alpha model of DataStore.

To supply suggestions on these multiplatform releases, create a bug on our challenge tracker, or be part of the dialog in the Kotlinlang #multiplatform channel.

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