KorGE VS okio

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If you want to create games using Kotlin, you can try my 3D Game Engine: minigdx (https://github.com/minigdx/minigdx).

Or other game engine:

- https://littlekt.com/ (LittleKt (Little Kotlin) is a multiplatform 2D game framework written in Kotlin)

- https://korge.org/ (Korge - Modern Multiplatform Game Engine for Kotlin.)

- https://libgdx.com/ (LibGDX, it's for Java but you can use Kotlin, if you don't want to target the web platform)

- https://korge.org/ (Korge - Modern Multiplatform Game Engine for Kotlin.) - https://github.com/minigdx/minigdx (Minigdx - Minimalist Game Framework using Kotlin Multiplatform / I created it before creating Tiny) - https://libgdx.com/ (LibGDX, it's for Java but you can use Kotlin, if you don't want to target the web platform)

The new version of this Kotlin Multiplatform Game Engine https://korge.org/ (JS, JVM (Windows/Linux/Mac), Android, K/N(Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS)) along the korlibs (kds, kmem, klock, krypto, korma, korio, korim, korau, korgw, korge, korte) has been released.

there is actually a really nice library that might be what you're looking for: https://korge.org/

Have you seen KorGE?

I am involved in the development of Android application which is a rather "thick" mobile client for a Web service. It heavily communicates with the server but also has a lot of inner logic too. So, I decided to use some features of Google Guava library to simplify development process. Here is a list of features I'm very interested in: immutable collections, base utils, collection extensions, functional programming sugar and idioms (common.collect and common.base), primitives utilities (common.primitives), hashing utilities (common.hash), concurrent utils (futures and AsyncFunction). Things I don't want to use in Android: common.cache (see question below), common.eventbus (we have better Android specific libs for this, such as Otto), common.io (we can use okio for Android now).

Yeah Kotlin's own standard library is a lot smaller than Java's currently so you'll need to use something third-party for this. Okio is a popular option https://square.github.io/okio/ it has a Buffer type which is pretty similar to Java's ByteBuffer

Use okio, it is Multiplatform now. I use this for my own library KStore

For networking, file IO, and streams in general, there's Korio and for Java; for just networking, there's LiteNetLib for C#; for what looks like data streams in general, there's Okio also for Java; and Tokio for multi-threaded IO in Rust.

Okio is nice for input/output streams, and sockets.

Sounds like you want https://square.github.io/okio/

On JVM, there is plenty of existing solution already on for multiplatform uses I'd suggest checking amazing Okio library by Square, that seems to cover most of basic use-cases.

I think the main multiplatform library for I/O currently is okio, https://github.com/square/okio. As for compression, you should probably create an expect class for the compressor and use platform specific calls for actual compression. Take a look at https://kotlinlang.org/docs/mpp-connect-to-apis.html.