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Three Android developers. Zero Swift experience. A two-month deadline.At KotlinConfersations'2026, Suhyeon (Leah) Kim shares how her team used KMP to build and ship a brand-new iOS app despite having no iOS developers on the team.
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A bimonthly podcast that covers the Kotlin programming language by JetBrains, as well as related technologies.
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