--- title: GitPortal for KMP - Bidirectional - Intro | daily.dev description: Native mobile teams adopting Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) often struggle with the default single-repo setup, which forces Android and iOS development into... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gitportal-for-kmp---bidirectional---intro-lzrb0di4a twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitPortal for KMP - Bidirectional - Intro | daily.dev og:description: Native mobile teams adopting Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) often struggle with the default single-repo setup, which forces Android and iOS development into... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gitportal-for-kmp---bidirectional---intro-lzrb0di4a og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LZRB0Di4A.png og:image:alt: GitPortal for KMP - Bidirectional - Intro 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. # GitPortal for KMP - Bidirectional - Intro **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Native mobile teams adopting Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) often struggle with the default single-repo setup, which forces Android and iOS development into lockstep — a mismatch for how native-mobile specialists actually work. The unidirectional (versioned library) approach is better for pilots but loses efficiency during feature development. GitPortal's bidirectional mode addresses this by allowing app code and KMP code to evolve independently per platform, with intentional and eventual synchronization between the two apps. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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