--- title: Overcoming KMM's Early Adopter Blues | daily.dev description: A retrospective on the challenges early adopters faced with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) and how Touchlab helped address them. Covers initial pain points... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/overcoming-kmm-s-early-adopter-blues-iqbe7qdrs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Overcoming KMM's Early Adopter Blues | daily.dev og:description: A retrospective on the challenges early adopters faced with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) and how Touchlab helped address them. Covers initial pain points... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/overcoming-kmm-s-early-adopter-blues-iqbe7qdrs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iqBe7qDrS.png og:image:alt: Overcoming KMM's Early Adopter Blues 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. # Overcoming KMM's Early Adopter Blues **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A retrospective on the challenges early adopters faced with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) and how Touchlab helped address them. Covers initial pain points like complex project setup (leading to the creation of KaMPKit) and the legacy memory model's thread-freezing requirements (addressed by JetBrains' new memory manager). Also discusses growing pains for larger production teams, including internal SDK workflows, iOS developer skepticism, and tooling like the xcode-kotlin debugger and a Swift-friendly API compiler plugin. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform \(KMP\)](https://daily.dev/posts/helping-decision-makers-say-yes-to-kotlin-multiplatform-kmp--ts09b63zw) · JetBrains · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#kotlin](https://daily.dev/tags/kotlin) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/overcoming-kmm-s-early-adopter-blues-iqbe7qdrs) ```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":"Overcoming KMM's Early Adopter Blues","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/overcoming-kmm-s-early-adopter-blues-iqbe7qdrs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/overcoming-kmm-s-early-adopter-blues-iqbe7qdrs"},"datePublished":"2026-08-02T07:15:08.913Z","dateModified":"2026-08-02T07:33:53.963Z","description":"A retrospective on the challenges early adopters faced with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) and how Touchlab helped address them. Covers initial pain points...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2fc49fc99852e56ef963c193d22edf67?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2fc49fc99852e56ef963c193d22edf67?_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/overcoming-kmm-s-early-adopter-blues-iqbe7qdrs","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"mobile,kotlin","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":"Overcoming KMM's Early Adopter Blues"}]} ```