Tech Desk
Aug 19, 2024
One big difficulty with app development is that normally you have to create separate apps for iOS and Android. There are cross platform frameworks such as React Native, however that generally results in a deficient experience on both platforms.
Skip focuses to solve that by letting existing iOS app developers to make a native Android app with minimal effort.
Skip has been in beta for over a year, while the framework is now globally available for developers to use. However, if you’re an indie developer, you can utilise the tool completely for free.
Moreover, if you’re already an iOS app developer, Skip takes your existing Swift and SwiftUI code and assembles it into Kotlin and Compose, as if it was written natively for Android.
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Your iOS code remains non-altered, and you also continue to use Xcode to manage both platforms in one unified codebase. You can also select which code you’d like to share on both platforms, and which code you’d like to keep separate between platforms.
Skip tool lets you use any Swift/Objective-C library for iOS, and any Kotlin/Java library on Android. While if you’re an iOS developer and are interested in bringing your app to Android, give Skip a chance.
