A common module contains platform-independent code, meaning it is not specific to any platform, as well as declarations without the implementation of platform-dependent APIs. Those declarations allow common code to depend on platform-specific implementations. This module is shared across other modules and is common between them, hence the name common.
A common module can depend only on other common modules and libraries, including the kotlin-stdlib-common Kotlin standard library .
A special metadata file is generated upon compiling the common module, which contains all the declarations in the module.
For example, let's say we need a Date object in Android, iOS, and web applications using the Kotlin Native project. All platforms ...
