I presented this with Egor Andreevich at Droidcon NYC on August 27, 2018.

Available as video, slides, YouTube, & Speaker Deck.

Okio is a small library that powers a lot of Square’s open source software, such as OkHttp, Moshi and Wire. Okio makes I/O easy by solving the most common problems in a simple and efficient way.

At Square, we’re investing in Kotlin. We love the language and the tooling, and we love how Kotlin makes us more productive. We’re excited about being able to run Kotlin on multiple platforms, and we’d love to be able to harness the power of Okio on Web and iOS - that’s why we’ve embarked on a journey to migrate Okio to multiplatform Kotlin!

In this talk we’ll share our experiences and namely:

What worked for us and what didn’t
Our strategy for moving fast without breaking code
Maintaining compatibility: Java source vs Kotlin source vs bytecode
Issues we’ve encountered along the way and ways to work around them
Performance considerations
How this impacts OkHttp, Retrofit, Moshi & Wire

This talk should be of interest to anyone who works with multiplatform Kotlin or wants to learn more about it.