kotlin-inject VS koin

Depending on how you use Anvil, there are definitely things that are missing/not as straightforward, e.g. https://github.com/evant/kotlin-inject/issues/212

I haven't used koin in a couple years since my newer jobs are using hilt and dagger/anvil for the compile time safety. In my personal projects I have been using kmp which when I started two years ago, koin was in alpha which was why I decided to use kodein. Which koin is stable in kmp, although kotlin-inject seems like a promising kmp compile time di in place of dagger.

I would suggest looking at Kotlin-Inject, it's a compile-time DI like Dagger and it's really pleasant to use.

Dagger/ hilt will not work on kmm being that they are java projects. One project that is similar to them though on kmm is kotlin-inject which might be something to look at.

I'd say it's second after this one. That one has multiplatform support in snapshot version, while mine is in alpha)

Interesting! Author of kotlin-inject here, I had originally looked at writing a compiler plugin and using IR but the lack of documentation and a non-stable api scared me away. Cool that you were able to get it to work.

Let's see how we can use Koin to achieve Dependency Injection (DI) and incorporate a third-party iOS Swift SDK in a KMM project. Koin supports KMM development, making it the ideal choice for KMM projects.

Might want to tell koin that : https://insert-koin.io/

New modules allow you to easily build KVision apps with the Ballast opinionated application state management framework. You can see how Ballast (together with Koin) can help you design your application architecture in the new todomvc-ballast example.

I started looking into using Kotlin/JS, and hopefully reusing a bit of code that I have, which is using Dagger and Anvil - which of course are JVM only. So I've been looking for other solutions, namely Koin and Kodein. Koin's multibinding support is... not really amazing (e.g. here, and while Kodein does support multibinding, it doesn't seem to support things like that at the declaration site - everything needs to be specified in a "DI container" (module).

Koin

It's a Koin issue, not compose. Discussed here https://github.com/InsertKoinIO/koin/issues/1079

Now I will finish up saying Hilt is just an opinionated way to dependency injection on Android, but there are simpler frameworks out there such as Koin or Kodein that can help take away a lot of the troubles that can come when you try to make your own framework. Just know that most other frameworks tend to be runtime injection instead of compile time injection like Hilt, which can be helpful to know at compile time if you are missing a dependency in your graph as opposed to runtime when its out in the wild.

I've been using Angular a lot and I like how it works. I'm also a huge fan of koin for kotlin.

for injection, I suggest Koin (https://insert-koin.io/)