xmlutil VS okio

It does apper to be a bug in serialization rather than xmlutil itself as the dev confirms here. Either way, at the end of the day a dependency that sporadically fails the compilation with no reason and requires disabling incremental compilation is not acceptable for production use and I've settled to use StAX instead.

It now supports JSON, ProtoBuf and CBOR. XML is a community-supported format that is provided by xmlutil

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.