Kevin Schildhorn

Finish The Damn Game Month 2025 Edition Contest Our Fourth Year Of Prizes and Giveaways! Inquire Within

It's September, which means it is time for our yearly #FinishTheDamnGame month!

It's a contest to beat old games from your backlog, and we give out game codes and gift cards and celebrate what we already have.

Interested? Find out the rules here!

www.spritesanddice.com/news/finish-...

RSVP to Building AI Infra Systems for Vibe Coders | Partiful An evening of talks, real systems thinking, and good vibes for developers building AI-native, fullstack apps. Hear from founders, engineers, and early builders who are shipping the backends behind mo...

We’ve learned a lot about scaling for mobile. @namnum.bsky.social will talk about why “second-platform thinking” (web → mobile, iOS → Android) should start early - even before your AI-coded MVP ships.

🗓 Tues 6/3, 5:30pm
📍 Building AI Infra Systems for Vibe Coders
🎟️ partiful.com/e/NRjzYND0fu...

Tadeas Kriz | KotlinConf 2025, May 21–23, Copenhagen KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.

Don’t miss it! 🎤

Tadeas Kriz dives into native dependency headaches at #KotlinConf tomorrow:

✅ JVM vs Native loading
✅ CocoaPods vs SPM
✅ What really happens at runtime

If you're shipping #KMP to iOS, this one’s for you.

🔗 kotlinconf.com/speakers/969...

Home Kotlin Foundation – protect, promote and advance the development of the Kotlin programming language.

📣 We’re thrilled to welcome Block & Meta to the #KotlinFoundation! 🙌

Both have been champions of #KMP in real-world adoption, and their support is a huge win for the ecosystem. Touchlab is proud to be a Silver Member, let’s keep building the future of Kotlin together! kotlinfoundation.org

Schedule | KotlinConf 2025, May 21–23, Copenhagen KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.

Fresh off big #KotlinMultiplatform news @ #GoogleIO, Google’s showing up strong at #KotlinConf.

🎤 Production insights from Google Docs
🧠 Deep dives on memory, API design & IDEs
🧑‍💻 Live codelabs in Room 173

📅 kotlinconf.com/schedule/?day=2025-05-23
📹 Main track is live-streamed ➡️ kotl.in/conf25-live

Android’s Kotlin Multiplatform announcements at Google I/O and KotlinConf 25 Android's Kotlin and KMP efforts announced at Google I/O 2025 and KotlinConf 2025 include new Jetpack library support, tools improvements, and more.

Touchlab is the ground at #GoogleIO where #KotlinMultiplatform made headlines, and we’re here for it! 🚀

✅ Stable Jetpack libs (Room, DataStore, Paging)
🛠️ New #KMP tooling in Android Studio
📱 Google Docs on iOS runs KMP in production

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/andr...

A must-watch for anyone still needing reassurance that #KMP is the future of mobile development!

Our ears were burning (in the best way possible)! Lots of great #SKIE chatter on this month's Android Developers Backstage podcast episode.

Linear MCP Integration for AI Agents Touchlab’s enhanced Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for Linear allows your AI agent to interact directly with Linear, streamlining workflows and saving you time. Building upon existing ...

Integrate Linear with your AI workflow!

Linear MCP integration:
🛠️ Solid auth + error handling
🏷️ Proper team/proj/priority tagging
⚡ Way smoother workflow
✅ Detailed, structured output

Use w/ Goose, Claude, Cursor & more: touchlab.co/linear-mcp-f...
#Alintegration #Linear

Taking a Look at Storytale Storytale is a Gradle plugin that generates interactive component libraries for your UI. We'll go over how it works and how it can help your design system.

Fresh from the Kotlin #ComposeMultiplatform community: Storytale is a new plugin to preview Composables in isolation—think Storybook for Compose. @kevinschildhorn.bsky.social breaks down what it does, how it works, what’s promising (and what’s not). touchlab.co/previewing-s...

🚀 We're Hiring #KotlinMultiplatform Dev’s in Brazil 🇧🇷

Join Touchlab & help shape the future of KMP!

✅ Build #KMP-based mobile apps
✅ Advise on best practices & architecture
✅ Contribute to open-source projects
✅ Fully remote, flexible, & collaborative

📌 Apply now!

Kotlin Multiplatform Tooling – Shifting Gears | The Kotlin Blog A couple of years ago, we initiated the idea of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to help facilitate the development of KMP applications. We embarked on this venture, building on the Fleet platform,

🚀 Kotlin Multiplatform Tooling – Shifting Gears!

We’re doubling down on KMP support in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio! As a result, we’re discontinuing KMP support in Fleet, but all the insights we've gained will fuel our future efforts. Get the details here:
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

KMMBridge 1.2.1 Released KMMBridge is a Gradle plugin that publishes Kotlin Multiplatform Xcode Framework dependencies for Swift Package Manager and CocoaPods. The 1.2.1 release fixes issues around publishing packages u...

🚀 #KMMBridge 1.2.1 is here!

What’s new?
✅ Publish CocoaPods artifacts via GitHub Releases
✅ Better error logging for faster debugging
✅ Smoother #KMP-to-iOS workflow

@kevinschildhorn.bsky.social breaks down all the updates here 👇

Save 20% on Lynked: Banner of the Spark on Steam Lead the resistance in a world overrun by rogue machines—if you can find the time. When you're not out slaying bots, you'll be at home building your town, befriending eccentric robots, crafting gear, ...

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#photography #jimthorpe on a Nikon D40.

How to create a Custom Artifact Manager for KMMBridge - Adding a Custom Artifact Manager KMMBridge allows you to publish artifacts to some of the most popular repositories online, but what if you want to publish somewhere else? This two part post will go through how to create a cust...

KMMBridge includes ArtifactManager for custom publishing—@kevinschildhorn.bsky.social 's new guide makes it simple to store your XCFrameworks in Google Cloud Storage in this 2-part tutorial.

I spent my Saturday working on a small fantasy drafting app for the Puppy Bowl. It doesn't do the full draft but you can select players and assign them to teams, then export a CSV with the results. As a bonus it's written in KMP because all the libraries worked in common.

github.com/KevinSchildh...

🌟 Calling all #KotlinMultiplatform developers! 🌟

We’re expanding our contractor pool and looking for talented devs to join us. Work remotely, collaborate with experts, and help shape the future of #KMP!

📄 Apply now:

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

Touchlab is looking for talented #KotlinMultiplatform Developers to join other team members in LATAM 🌎

Work remotely, shape the future of #KMP, and collaborate with the team at the forefront of mobile innovation!

👉 Apply now:

I was just considering getting something like this, I might have to give it a try

Whoever named these, shame on you

iOS dev question: Anyone know how to modify a photo in your iOS photo library? I tried using PHPhotoLibrary but I couldn't get it working the way I wanted it. I want to be able to change bytes, not just add filters or whatever.

#swift #ios #phphotolibrsry

GitHub Wrapped 2024 - Your Coding Year in Review Like Spotify Wrapped, but for your GitHub activity! See your top languages, commit streaks, most productive days, and more in an engaging story format. Get your 2024 coding year in review now.

These wrappeds are getting a bit out of hand. git-wrapped.com

Debugging Kotlin in Xcode with SPM Builds Virtually all native mobile teams integrate Kotlin Multiplatform by publishing Xcode binaries, usually with SPM. This is generally easy to integrate, but prevented iOS developers from browsing o...

🚨 Major KMP Update: Debugging Kotlin in Xcode with SPM is now possible! Simplify workflows for iOS teams while scaling Kotlin Multiplatform. Read @kpgalligan.bsky.social ’s breakdown:

I released jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #245! Compose and Wear Compose alphas! @tdcolvin.bsky.social on camera apps! @kevinschildhorn.bsky.social on multiplatform adaptive layouts! And... do we really want to know what the "X" is in "Android XR"?!? jetc.dev/issues/245 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

Took an old toboggan and made it into a Christmas decoration. Not too shabby

Compose Multiplatform just added support for Canonical/Adaptive UIs, adapting screen content based on the screen size. A longer post and sample to come, but it's really neat seeing it work on all these different screens! www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-...

#kotlin #CMP #KMP #android #ios #mobiledev

Bad practice: not using the modern formatting API — Swift with Vincent You’re more of a video kind of person? I’ve got you covered! Here’s a video with the same content than this article 🍿

DateFormatter is super useful, but it's also really error-prone 😩

It's so easy to set a bad format or re-create the formatter too often...

But did you know that a simpler and more robust alternative exists?

www.swiftwithvincent.com/blog/bad-pr...

KMMBridge 1.1.0 Released KMMBridge is a Gradle plugin that publishes Kotlin Multiplatform Xcode Framework dependencies for Swift Package Manager and CocoaPods. The 1.1.0 release is a significant internal refactoring to ...

KMMBridge 1.1.0 Released! (KMMBridge publishes Kotlin Multiplatform builds through Swift Package Manager) This is a fairly significant release. @touchlab.co is refactoring KMMBridge to focus on it's core task, and to be more maintainable and extendable. touchlab.co/kmmbridge-1.1

screenshot of google search engine without the ai overview

remove AI overview in google by adding -ai at the end

#aiisbad #antiai #fuckai

hackingwithswift.com is a great swift resource, if you’re looking for videos then CodeWithChris is good too www.youtube.com/@CodeWithChris