Exploring Kotlin Symbol Processing: A Practical Guide
July 21, 2025
36 min
Free
kotlin
ksp
kotlin-symbol-processing
metaprogramming
code-generation
annotation-processing
android
kotlin-native
kotlin-js
gradle
compile-plugins
kotlin-poet
Description
This talk provides a practical guide to Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), explaining what it is, how it works, and when to use it. It covers KSP's advantages over traditional annotation processing (KAPT), its model of Kotlin code, and limitations. The presentation also walks through a practical example of using KSP to automatically generate mapper interfaces and implementations in an Android project, and briefly touches upon its use in multiplatform projects.