Interview: Supercharging Kotlin Multiplatform with Hot Reload
2025-10-31 • Official page
Join us at droidcon London for an exciting deep dive into cross-platform UI development with Márton Braun, Android Developer and Kotlin enthusiast. Waiting for full project recompilations every time you tweak a padding or color value is one of the ultimate productivity killers in mobile development.
In this interview, Márton explores the frontier of Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) tooling, focusing on the pain points that hot reload aims to solve. We look at past attempts at hot reloading, what makes this current generation of tooling distinct, and how leveraging the desktop target alongside hot reload can drastically trim down your local iteration loops. Beyond hot reload, Márton shares the upcoming Kotlin and KMP ecosystem features he is most excited about, how closer collaboration between Google and JetBrains can elevate the entire ecosystem, and his single piece of advice for developers looking to optimize their UI workflow.