What is KOIN? KOIN Review, Features

KOIN is a practical and lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin developers. It is a DSL, a lightweight container and a practical API.

About KOIN

Koin is a DSL that helps describe your modules and definitions, a container that does the definition parsing. What KOIN needs now is an API to retrieve KOIN instances outside of the container. This is the goal of the Koin component. KOIN brings the power of Kotlin plugins and annotations to leverage the initial power of the Koin framework open source and community driven, backed by Kotzilla.

Since 2017, KOIN has built powerful experiences and efficient tools to empower the open source community and Kotlin users. With more than 4.5 million downloads in March 22 and tens of thousands of visitors to KOIN's documentation site every day, KOIN provides you with a recognized and widely used solution package to improve the reliability, efficiency, and productivity of your Kotlin code.

Products and Services

• Make your Kotlin development simple and productive

Koin is a smart Kotlin dependency injection library that lets you focus on your application, not your tools.

Koin provides you with simple tools and APIs to build and assemble Kotlin-related technologies in your applications and allows you to easily scale your business.

• Get ready for Android

Thanks to the Kotlin language, Koin extends the Android platform and provides new features as part of the original platform.

Koin provides a simple and powerful API to retrieve your dependencies anywhere in your Android component, just use inject() or viewModel().

• Powering Kotlin Multi-Platform

Sharing code between mobile platforms is one of the main use cases for Kotlin Multiplatform. With Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, you can build cross-platform mobile apps and share common code between Android and iOS.

Koin provides multi-platform dependency injection and helps you build your components in native mobile apps and web/backend applications.

• Performance and productivity

Koin is a pure Kotlin framework that is designed to be straightforward in terms of usage and execution. It is easy to use, does not affect your compile time, and does not require any additional plugin configuration.

Development History

- In 2017, Arnaud Giuliani created and released Koin and still maintains it.

- Koin is one of the most trending Kotlin frameworks in 2018. Today, the project is supported by contributions from individuals and companies around the world.

-2022 Arnaud Giuliani and Michael Montoya co-founded Kotzilla to support and advance Koin technology.