Tencent's Kuikly framework uses Kotlin Multiplatform to let developers write foldable-screen adaptation logic once and reuse it across Android, iOS, and HarmonyOS, handling routing, animations, gestures, and safe-area insets through unified models.
Tencent's Kuikly framework uses Kotlin Multiplatform to unify foldable screen adaptation across Android, iOS, and HarmonyOS, handling routing, animations, gestures, and safe areas with a single shared codebase while preserving native platform experiences.
The author built DSH Mobile, a Kotlin Multiplatform app using Tencent's Kuikly framework, connecting to DeepSeek Harness via its Host protocol (HTTP RPC + dual WebSockets) with SSH/QR-code relay, native bridging, and robust reconnection logic, enabling on-the-go interaction with long-running AI agent tasks.
The author documents a 7.5-hour experiment using AI-assisted coding with Tencent's Kuikly cross-platform framework to build a multimodal AI chat app for Android, iOS, and HarmonyOS, detailing component selection, custom module creation, debugging via logcat, and iterative UI polishing, demonstrating how AI + Kuikly eliminates cross-platform duplication and boilerplate.
In just 7.5 hours, the author used AI‑assisted Kuikly to generate a fully functional multimodal chat application for Android, iOS and HarmonyOS—producing about 3,500 lines of code from 28 conversational rounds, supporting text, images, markdown rendering, SSE streaming, and local session management without writing a single line manually.
In a single day the author used Kuikly’s Kotlin‑Multiplatform framework together with AI‑driven CodeBuddy to generate roughly 3,500 lines of code, integrate six ready‑made components, write two custom modules, debug an image‑loading issue, and ship a fully functional multi‑modal chat app that runs on Android, iOS and HarmonyOS without writing a single line of code manually.
Tencent's Kuikly framework introduces TurboDisplay, a first-screen acceleration solution that caches rendered nodes and uses dual-thread parallel rendering to achieve instant page loads on repeat visits, reducing load times by 60-80% in production apps like QQ Games and Tencent Maps.
Kuikly Compose DSL extends the standard Jetpack Compose API to six native platforms—Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, H5, WeChat Mini‑Program, and macOS—by integrating a custom applier, layout mapping, gesture bridging, and native scrolling while preserving Compose semantics and enabling AI‑generated code.
QQ Music migrated 9 React H5 pages and 3 components to the Kuikly cross-platform framework using an AI-assisted workflow, achieving over 90% AI-generated code adoption, reducing development time from 3+ days to under 1 day per page, and cutting page load time by 90% while surpassing original React performance.
Tencent's Kuikly team introduces Kuikly AI, a Harness Engineering foundation for cross-platform development that addresses AI code quality and client complexity challenges through open-sourced Rules for framework conventions and Skills for scenario-specific AI agents, alongside MCP, design-to-code, preview tools, and migration agents.
The article analyzes how Kuikly integrates AI across the entire client‑side development lifecycle, identifies quality and complexity challenges, introduces a five‑part Harness Engineering framework, and details open‑source tools such as Rules, Skills, MCP and visual‑code agents that aim to make AI‑generated code reliable and production‑ready.
The author enables the OpenClaw AI agent to autonomously create cross-platform Kuikly apps by CLI-izing project setup, emitting structured JSON build errors, and feeding framework knowledge via Skills, producing working apps with real network requests while noting iOS compilation limits and the need for harness engineering.
This article details a practical experiment that uses the Kuikly App Builder skill to let an AI agent automatically create, compile, and deploy multi‑platform mobile apps, highlighting the workflow, results, current limitations, and broader implications for future AI‑driven development tools.
Facing the AI era, the Sogou Input Method team leveraged the Kuikly cross‑platform framework to build an AI‑driven coding pipeline, creating structured AI context, standardized Spec‑Kit workflows, and custom tools that cut new page development from three days to one while boosting code accuracy and documentation quality.
Sogou Input Method shares its Kuikly cross-platform AI engineering practice, adopting Spec-Kit standardized workflow, GAN-inspired iterative context document generation, and Kuikly's built-in AI tools (MCP, Rules, Skills) to achieve 3x faster new page development (3 days → 1 day) with high code quality and minimal architectural rework.
The article details how the Kuikly cross‑platform framework team tackled AI coding challenges by redesigning their architecture, building precise AI context documents, standardizing requirement flows with Spec‑Kit, and integrating a suite of AI tools, resulting in significant productivity gains and higher code quality.
Tencent's open-source Kuikly framework enables one Kotlin codebase to compile native apps for Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Web, and mini-programs, serving 20+ products with 500M daily users; internal teams rate it 'multi, fast, dynamic, easy' citing 50% HarmonyOS efficiency gains, 22% iOS load improvement, 98% activity page arrival rate, and 60% development time reduction.
HelloTalk shares their experience adopting Kuikly, a Kotlin Multiplatform framework, for cross-platform development, detailing technical selection, native UI rendering, component extension, multi-language adaptation, modular architecture, and AI-assisted development workflow, achieving code reuse and efficiency gains.
Using Tencent’s open‑source Kuikly framework and AI assistance, the author creates a minimalist “Lonely Frog” app that runs on Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Web and mini‑programs, detailing setup, design generation, code snippets, debugging tips, and multi‑platform deployment in a single day.
Tencent's Kuikly cross-platform framework adds support for Apple's iOS 26 Liquid Glass design, demonstrating how native-rendering frameworks can directly leverage platform innovations while self-rendering frameworks like Flutter must simulate effects at higher cost and lower fidelity.
Kuikly, Tencent’s Kotlin‑Multiplatform cross‑end framework, introduces native support for Apple’s iOS 26 Liquid Glass design, comparing self‑rendering and native‑rendering architectures, detailing adaptation strategies, API extensions, compatibility handling, and offering code examples to help developers integrate the new visual effect across platforms.
Kuikly, Tencent’s Kotlin‑Multiplatform cross‑end framework, now adds H5 and WeChat Mini‑Program support, delivering a lightweight 463 KB bundle, faster page loads across iOS, Android and PC browsers, and advantages such as superior development experience, SEO friendliness, broad compatibility, and ecosystem reuse, while outlining its architecture and future roadmap.
Tencent's game esports live streaming SDK adapted to HarmonyOS using the Kuikly cross-platform framework, achieving 100% business code reuse across Android, iOS, and HarmonyOS while supporting multiple game apps, saving over 50% development effort through modular architecture, Schema-based feature routing, and atomic infrastructure design.
With the launch of HarmonyOS Next, the game live‑streaming SDK team leveraged the Kuikly cross‑platform framework to adapt their Android, iOS and web code to HarmonyOS, achieving 100% cross‑platform reuse across three platforms, cutting over 50% of development effort while boosting performance, stability and modularity.
Tencent's Kuikly cross-platform framework open-sources HarmonyOS support and Compose DSL beta, achieving native-level performance via Kotlin Multiplatform and CAPI rendering, with detailed engineering trade-offs on ArkUI mapping, text layout reuse, and Kotlin Native optimization.
Kuikly, Tencent’s Kotlin Multiplatform‑based cross‑platform framework, has been extended to support HarmonyOS with native performance, offering Compose DSL, high‑performance rendering, Kotlin Native adaptation, debugging tools, and detailed optimization strategies that achieve near‑native speed and dynamic UI capabilities across Android, iOS, Web, and mini‑programs.
Tencent open-sources Kuikly, a Kotlin Multiplatform framework used in 15+ apps with billion daily PVs, achieving native performance via two-tree rendering and declarative DSL while supporting dynamic updates across Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Web, and mini-programs.
