
5/14/2024 · Maru Ahues Bouza, Brandon Badger
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This post guides developers on choosing the right tech stack for cross-platform app development. It recommends Kotlin with Jetpack Compose for leveraging Android's latest capabilities and deep hardware integration. It highlights Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) for sharing business logic across mobile, desktop, web, and server by compiling Kotlin to platform-specific binaries. For sharing both UI and business logic, it recommends Flutter, which uses the Dart language and compiles to machine code or JavaScript/WebAssembly, offering stateful hot-reload for development. The post emphasizes Google's ongoing work to improve interoperability between Flutter and Kotlin.