The Studio Blog

Android and iOS handle background execution in fundamentally different ways. We built KMPWorker — an open-source Kotlin Multiplatform library — to give shared Kotlin code a single, unified API over both WorkManager and BGTaskScheduler. Here's the architecture, the trade-offs, and where it gets complicated.

What we learned shipping production systems that handle millions of requests — architecture patterns, failure modes, and the tools that saved us.