--- title: Ideal iOS KMP Setup | daily.dev description: A best-practice setup guide for iOS developers working with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). Covers installing a JVM via SDKMan (Java 17/Amazon Corretto), managing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ideal-ios-kmp-setup-fjros7vdw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ideal iOS KMP Setup | daily.dev og:description: A best-practice setup guide for iOS developers working with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). Covers installing a JVM via SDKMan (Java 17/Amazon Corretto), managing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ideal-ios-kmp-setup-fjros7vdw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fJRoS7vDw.png og:image:alt: Ideal iOS KMP Setup 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. # Ideal iOS KMP Setup **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A best-practice setup guide for iOS developers working with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). Covers installing a JVM via SDKMan (Java 17/Amazon Corretto), managing Xcode versions, installing Touchlab's Xcode Kotlin Plugin for Kotlin debugging and syntax support in Xcode, and enabling SKIE (Swift/Kotlin Interface Enhancer) to bridge Kotlin features like coroutines to Swift async. Also recommends Android Studio or IntelliJ via JetBrains Toolbox for Kotlin editing, and JetBrains' Kdoctor for environment validation. Includes a sample KMP project (KaMPKit) for testing the setup. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#kotlin](https://daily.dev/tags/kotlin), [#xcode](https://daily.dev/tags/xcode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ideal-ios-kmp-setup-fjros7vdw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Ideal iOS KMP Setup","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ideal-ios-kmp-setup-fjros7vdw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ideal-ios-kmp-setup-fjros7vdw"},"datePublished":"2026-08-02T07:15:28.230Z","dateModified":"2026-08-02T07:39:31.970Z","description":"A best-practice setup guide for iOS developers working with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). Covers installing a JVM via SDKMan (Java 17/Amazon Corretto), managing...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ab5d1b71fb2dd9e03b481189b788f63d?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ab5d1b71fb2dd9e03b481189b788f63d?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Touchlab","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Touchlab","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CQ0u6GwB--/f_auto,q_auto/v1785654902/logos/touchlab?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ideal-ios-kmp-setup-fjros7vdw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ios,kotlin,xcode","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Touchlab","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Ideal iOS KMP Setup"}]} ```