Study of impact and flexibilities provided by sharing code logic in code architecture layers written using KMM for android & iOS mobile applications.

Eng. Mayur Pathak

Master's thesis

Abstract:

In the world of mobile application development there have been countless hours of discussions to justify ‘Write Once Run Anywhere’ taking into account many cross-platform frameworks. However, each framework had their own drawbacks along with advantages. E.g Some of them had a long learning curve or could not produce the native experience. Instead of saving time and cost, the extra work has been reported by the users. Which removes them from first class for developing cross platform mobile applications. Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) is considered to be most native for developing mobile applications for Android and iOS platform by sharing a single codebase. Unlike other platforms, it does not disconnect application development from native frameworks. To explore this path further, this thesis will focus on developing three applications. Two applications for Android & iOS without sharing any code. Third one will focus on writing code by using KMM at possible levels of MVVM architecture to be shared across both platforms. After finishing the application, the thesis focuses on finding performance differences between apps and also tries to justify which are the most flexible parts of the code, where code sharing actually proves to be well fit and reduces actual work.

Keywords

Android, iOS, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, Cross-Platform Mobile Development

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 31. 3. 2022

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Ing. Martin Pelikán, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Systems Engineering and Informatics / Informatics