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Feb 2, 2026 · Mobile Development

How Kotlin Multiplatform Turns One Codebase into Native Android & iOS Binaries

This article demystifies Kotlin Multiplatform’s compiler architecture, explaining how shared Kotlin code is transformed into platform‑specific binaries via a common intermediate representation, the roles of Kotlin/JVM and Kotlin/Native backends, expect/actual contracts, memory model evolution, and practical build and integration steps for Android and iOS.