mastodon 4.7.2Swift and SwiftUI for Android. Build dual-platform apps for iOS and Android with Skip! https://skip.dev
Incredible news: Skip is now free and open-source for everyone!
Create fully native x-platform apps in Swift and #SwiftUI, with deep Android and #JetpackCompose integration, powered by the Swift Android SDK
Read more and learn how to contribute:
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
Swift 6.3 is out and features official Android Support! We've released Skip 1.8 to start using the new 6.3 Swift SDK for Android, and the latest version of Skip Showcase utilizing the official SDK was just released on the Play Store. Read all about it at https://skip.dev/blog/swift-63-android-support/ #swift #swiftui #android
Skip’s @marcprux@mastodon.social gave an excellent talk at #fosdem on the history and state of Swift on Android (without all the extras that Skip provides):
SkipWeb - a cross-platform embedded web view that works in #SwiftUI across iOS and #AndroidDev - has been getting some great enhancements from users lately
This is a fun contribution: support for the .trim modifier in #SwiftUI for #AndroidDev
Another upcoming conference session about Swift on Android!
The latest Skip Showcase release features an "Easter Egg": a full Block Blast-style game in created in pure SwiftUI and cross-compiled to Android with the newly-released Swift SDK for Android! Check it out and blast away! https://skip.dev/blog/skip-block-blast/ #AndroidDev #iOSDev #SwiftUI
For those interested in the internals of how Skip works its magic to build your app for iOS and Android simultaneously, we've published a new architecture overview: https://skip.dev/docs/architecture/
Today’s featured user contribution: not every PR has to be flashy!
We love fixes like this to missed corner cases. In this case, #SwiftUI for #AndroidDev wasn’t correctly displaying ‘.alert (…)’ with an empty title
Thanks to this contribution, #SwiftUI .alert() for #AndroidDev now takes better advantage of #JetpackCompose alerts, without losing SwiftUI’s additional functionality
Skip’s new Getting Started guide makes it easier than ever to try the Swift Android SDK. Whether you’re sharing some business logic or creating an entire dual-platform #SwiftUI app, setup is just a few steps:
In case you missed it: Fantastic presentation at NSSpain on using the Swift Android SDK + Skip to share business logic in a real-world app. And it’s even easier today!
“Android Doesn’t Deserve Swift—But We Did It Anyway — Pierluigi Cifani”
youtube.com/watch?v=EIGl6GOo210
Experiment in vibe coding a dual-platform iOS and #AndroidDev #SwiftUI calculator with Claude and Skip. Why Skip and not separate codebases? Because regardless of who or what writes it, shared code means half the bugs and maintenance
Our PR to enable URLSession.websocketTask on Android has merged!
Skip long supported WebSocket in transpiled mode. But customers quickly found it missing when using compiled Swift @swiftlang@mastodon.social
Use ‘skip android sdk —help’ for help getting the 6.3 nightly
Today’s user contribution: Android support for #SwiftUI ViewThatFits!
SwiftUI patches tend to be in 2 parts. SkipUI transpiles to Kotlin and interacts directly with #JetpackCompose:
https://github.com/skiptools/skip-ui/pull/277
SkipFuseUI is compiled Swift on Android and bridges to SkipUI:
https://github.com/skiptools/skip-fuse-ui/pull/74
Enjoy ViewThatFits in your x-platform SwiftUI!
2025 was a banner year for Swift on Android. With simple tooling, deep Android integration, and #SwiftUI + #JetpackCompose support, Skip turns this technology into a robust platform for x-platform mobile development. Read our 2025 retrospective and look forward to 2026: https://skip.tools/blog/skip-2026/
You may have missed it:
To expose any of your Swift API to Kotlin/Java, just add a “// SKIP @bridge”comment. And now, you can use “// SKIP @bridgeMembers” to expose a type and all visible members.
Today’s user contribution: view modifiers!
These add Android support for several new #SwiftUI view modifiers
Recall: SkipUI transpiles to Kotlin and interacts with #JetpackCompose:
https://github.com/skiptools/skip-ui/pull/294
SkipFuseUI bridges to compiled Swift on Android:
https://github.com/skiptools/skip-fuse-ui/pull/79
Skip just crossed over 100 Swift-for-Android-related repositories! Many of these are dual-platform frameworks you can use in your apps. And remember that https://swiftpackageindex.com indexes thousands of Android-compatible Swift libraries!