Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase
Hello Hacker News. I'm Marc, one half of the team that created skip.tools. Skip is a tool that transpiles your SwiftUI iOS app into a Kotlin Jetpack Compose app, and enables you to use a single language to create a complete app that reaches the entire mobile marketplace. What it is: Skip stands in contrast to other cross-platform development tools like Flutter, React Native, and Xamarin, in that it enables the creation of genuinely native applications for both of the dominant mobile platforms. It doesn't embed a separate engine or runtime into your app, but instead lets you use pure Swift…
Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase launched on August 28, 2024 with 322 votes, #134 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Skip is a transpiler that converts a single SwiftUI codebase into both native iOS and Android applications. Developers write in Swift, and Skip automatically translates the code to Kotlin Jetpack Compose for Android, producing genuinely native apps without embedding a separate runtime. It targets software developers who want to build native mobile applications for both platforms using one language rather than maintaining separate codebases or relying on cross-platform frameworks.
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From the sources
Skip lets you write one app in Swift and SwiftUI and ship it natively on both iOS and Android.
Your app runs as native SwiftUI on iOS and native Jetpack Compose on Android. There is no intermediary rendering engine — each platform uses its own recommended UI toolkit, so system themes, accessibility, and platform conventions work automatically. As you develop in Xcode, the Skip plugin continuously builds the Android version alongside iOS. Launch once and see your app running on both the iOS Simulator and Android emulator simultaneously. Write your UI once in SwiftUI. On iOS it runs as-is. On Android, Skip produces native Jetpack Compose — preserving layout, accessibility, and each platform’s conventions. No mimicry, no uncanny valley. Skip works entirely at build time. Your shipped…from skip.tools
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello Hacker News. I'm Marc, one half of the team that created skip.tools. Skip is a tool that transpiles your SwiftUI iOS app into a Kotlin Jetpack Compose app, and enables you to use a single language to create a complete app that reaches the entire mobile marketplace. What it is: Skip stands in contrast to other…
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