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Kotlin Multiplatform Dependency Injection

Source Project​

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You can find the Kotlin Multiplatform project here: https://github.com/InsertKoinIO/hello-kmp

Gradle Dependencies​

Koin is a pure Kotlin library and can be used in your shared Kotlin project. Just add the core dependency:

Add koin-core in common project, declare your dependency: https://github.com/InsertKoinIO/hello-kmp/tree/main/buildSrc

// Dependencies.kt

object Versions {
    const val koin = "3.2.0"
}

object Deps {

    object Koin {
        const val core = "io.insert-koin:koin-core:${Versions.koin}"
        const val test = "io.insert-koin:koin-test:${Versions.koin}"
        const val android = "io.insert-koin:koin-android:${Versions.koin}"
    }

}

Shared Koin Module​

Platform specific components can be declared here, and be used later in Android or iOS (declared directly with actual classes or even actual module)

You can find the shared module sources here: https://github.com/InsertKoinIO/hello-kmp/tree/main/shared

// platform Module
val platformModule = module {
    singleOf(::Platform)
}

// KMP Class Definition
expect class Platform() {
    val name: String
}

// iOS
actual class Platform actual constructor() {
    actual val name: String =
        UIDevice.currentDevice.systemName() + " " + UIDevice.currentDevice.systemVersion
}

// Android
actual class Platform actual constructor() {
    actual val name: String = "Android ${android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT}"
}

Koin modules need to be gathered via a function:

// Common App Definitions
fun appModule() = listOf(commonModule, platformModule)

Android App​

You can keep using koin-android features and reuse the common modules/classes.

The code for the Android app can be found here: https://github.com/InsertKoinIO/hello-kmp/tree/main/androidApp

iOS App​

The code for the iOS App can be found here: https://github.com/InsertKoinIO/hello-kmp/tree/main/iosApp

Calling Koin​

Let’s prepare a wrapper to our Koin function (in our shared code):

// Helper.kt

fun initKoin(){
    startKoin {
        modules(appModule())
    }
}

We can initialize it in our Main app entry:

@main
struct iOSApp: App {
    
    // KMM - Koin Call
    init() {
        HelperKt.doInitKoin()
    }
    
    var body: some Scene {
        WindowGroup {
            ContentView()
        }
    }
}

Injected Classes​

Let’s call a Kotlin class instance from swift.

Our Kotlin component:

// Injection Boostrap Helper
class GreetingHelper : KoinComponent {
    private val greeting : Greeting by inject()
    fun greet() : String = greeting.greeting()
}

In our swift app:

struct ContentView: View {
        // Create helper instance
    let greet = GreetingHelper().greet()

    var body: some View {
        Text(greet)
    }
}

New Native Memory Management​

Activate experimental with root gradle.properties.