Google Officially Supports Kotlin Multiplatform

We are supporting Kotlin Multiplatform on Android, enabling sharing code across platforms to increase productivity and quality for Android apps

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I am starting to have mixed feelings about this. It feels like I either have chosen the wrong technology or there is something wrong with me.

Had to drop support to every other platform and only working on the commonMain and androidMain source sets (so what's the point of KMP after all?) and still the app is not on par with purely native counterparts (main pain points: navigation, l10n, image loading/rendering, video players, markdown rendering using Compose multiplatorm, resource access especially for typefaces, using mocks in tests, and the list could go on...).

Maybe Compose multiplatorm is the real culprit but God, have mercy on me please....
- Uh-oh heretic spotted. Recant everything you've said or I'll make you justify every line of your manifest to a robot!
  
  I hoped to be burned alive like in the good ol' times.
So this is why they dropped multiple flutter devs from the team. RIP Flutter!
- I see this as a positive for Flutter. Android tends to publicly execute its favorite libraries and ignore the ones that actually work properly.
- I called it in the layoff announcement and people said I was crazy

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