--- title: Compose Multiplatform and the Native App Future | daily.dev description: Compose Multiplatform (CMP) and Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) are positioned as a game-changing approach to mobile development that eliminates the traditional... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/compose-multiplatform-and-the-native-app-future-v9tuoi4k1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Compose Multiplatform and the Native App Future | daily.dev og:description: Compose Multiplatform (CMP) and Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) are positioned as a game-changing approach to mobile development that eliminates the traditional... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/compose-multiplatform-and-the-native-app-future-v9tuoi4k1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v9TUoI4k1.png og:image:alt: Compose Multiplatform and the Native App Future og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Compose Multiplatform and the Native App Future **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Compose Multiplatform (CMP) and Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) are positioned as a game-changing approach to mobile development that eliminates the traditional risk of choosing cross-platform over native. The key insight is that on Android, Kotlin and Compose are already the native stack, so there is no cross-platform tradeoff. On iOS, CMP allows inline blending of SwiftUI/UIKit views within Compose screens — not overlays — sharing the same KMP architecture and data layer. The '80/20 UI' concept argues that users spend most of their time on a few core screens, so teams can build the full app in Compose, then selectively apply native iOS UI to high-traffic screens. This flexibility fundamentally removes the risk cliff associated with cross-platform decisions: if shared UI proves insufficient, native UI can be added incrementally without a rewrite. The author argues this positions CMP not just as another cross-platform option, but as a potential new default for mobile development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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