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245: Treehouse, Redwood and Zipline with Colin White
Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast
How to Use Redwood to Generate Code for Your iOS Colleague
Redwood is a Kotlin compiler plugin, it basically just generates code for you. It's not actually generating any elements for the individual toolkit. It just generates an interface that then you have to implement yourself. The way it works today at cache up is say we want to add a new widget to our Schema. And then I can write compose functions that call into this redwood button function. But I just then pass off this button interface to the iOS developer and they work on writing that interface for their platform.
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Speaker 2
So basically once you have these, once you, once redwood does its work, so to speak, because like you were saying, it's a Kotlin compiler plugin, it basically just generates code for you, essentially, right? And it generates, if you're on an, on Android, it generates like, you know, view related code. If you're an iOS, it generates UI kit related code. And if you're in the web, so to speak, it generates like HTML elements, right? Yeah.
Speaker 1
So it's not, it's not actually generating any elements for the individual toolkit. It just generates an interface that then you have to implement yourself.
Speaker 2
Oh, I see, got it got okay. So because that was going to be my other question. So like say, you know, your iOS colleagues want to also use this with you, right? What they would do is they could, both of you could use the same schema, so to speak, because you know, that should hopefully be common. And once you apply a redwood, it generates the interfaces, but then your iOS colleague would have to like, you know, use the implementation for that interface on iOS, potentially using UI kit or Swift UI or something. And on the Android side, you know, we just do like you implement the interface using existing views, you know, our regular, random views or potentially, you know, compose UI or something. Totally.
Speaker 1
Yeah. So the way it works today at cache up is say we want to add a new widget to our schema, say I'm adding a button, I'll add in a button definition into our schema. And then I can write compose functions that call into this redwood button function. But I just then pass off this button interface to the iOS developer I work with, the Android developer I work with. And they, they work on translating on writing that interface for their platform. So the these interfaces, they can, yeah, they can be implemented in Swift as well, because of, of course, call a multi platform works works great with interoperability.
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