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Skip is the company blog at skip.tools, writing about programming. Since 2023, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 97 times, most often “Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Skip lets you write one app in Swift and SwiftUI and ship it natively on both iOS and Android.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase15 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2023-10-25
- Bringing Swift and SwiftUI to Android5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-03-28
- Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase3 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2024-05-18
- /docs/platformcustomization/2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-08-28
- A Swift Toolchain for Android, Part 1: Setup, Compiling, Running, and Testing2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-11
- Scrumskipper: Running Apple's SwiftUI sample app on Android2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-12
- Skip 1.0 released: create iOS and Android apps from a single SwiftUI codebase2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-15
- Swift Everywhere: Bringing Swift Packages to Android2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-23
- Sharing C code between Swift and Kotlin for iPhone and Android apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-18
- /pricing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-28
What Hacker News says?
> You need to keep up with the native UI across all the platforms. (Or, of course, you don't, in which case there are gaps, bugs, inconsistency, jank, etc.) And for the latter, the result is something that mostly does what web-based solutions do (with well-understood downsides), only with virtually no ecosystem in comparison. I do think there are opportunities for cross-platform native development solutions like htt…
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on “We're forking Flutter”Submitted Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase as a story · 322 points
HN discussionIt seems something like that already exists: https://skip.tools/blog/scrumskipper I mostly work with flutter but Skip looks pretty cool.
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on “Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine”Submitted Native Swift on Android, Part 2: Your First Swift Android App as a story · 38 points
HN discussionIt exists already. SwiftUI to Jetpack Compose: https://skip.tools And a less mature but very interesting project with a SwiftUI-like API for UI across macOS/Linux/Windows plus some emerging support for Android and even a TUI target contributed by Miguel de Icaza: https://swiftcrossui.dev > It's a description language that system frameworks interpret and create NSViews and UIViews and CGLayers etc out of. This is out…
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on “The Swift SDK for Android”Submitted A Swift Toolchain for Android, Part 1: Setup, Compiling, Running, and Testing as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThe Swift SDK for Android doesn't specify or mandate any user-interface technology, but leaves it open for other projects to build upon. For example, Skip.tools re-implements SwiftUI for Android by bridging it to Jetpack Compose, so you can use the same codebase for both your business logic as well as UI layer. We write about it at https://skip.tools/blog/fully-native-android-swift-apps/ and an example of an app on…
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on “The Swift SDK for Android”Submitted Native Cross-Platform Swift Apps as a story · 12 points
HN discussionYes, Skip has been using our preview release of the Swift SDK for Android in our Fuse mode for over a year, and it has proven to be very popular! You can see our blog post about using it to build a completely native SwiftUI app for Android at https://skip.tools/blog/fully-native-android-swift-apps/ To clarify a couple of other comments about transpilation vs. compilation, Skip has two modes: Skip Lite, whereby your…
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on “The Swift SDK for Android”Submitted Skip 1.0 released: create iOS and Android apps from a single SwiftUI codebase as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://skip.tools ported SwiftUI to Android.
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on “The Swift SDK for Android”Submitted Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRelated: https://skip.tools <-- SwiftUI for Android
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on “The Swift SDK for Android”Submitted An Official Swift SDK for Android as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDoes this project tie in to the SKIP transpiler? https://skip.tools/blog/bringing-swift-to-android/ I have an existing Swift / SwiftUI app that I am looking to port to Android, and have been not wanting to move to React Native.
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on “The Swift SDK for Android”Submitted Scrumskipper: Running Apple's SwiftUI sample app on Android as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe SDK doesn't quite work that way, your iOS-specific dependencies like SwiftUI and UIKit aren't available. For SwiftUI development, [Skip]( https://skip.tools/ ) has a transpiler that translates your SwiftUI code into Jetpack Compose. Without Skip, you can still share other code through JNI - similar to Kotlin Multiplatform.
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on “The Swift SDK for Android”Submitted Skip on the Swift Package Indexing Podcast: Swift Android Workgroup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSee https://skip.tools for a new entrant
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on “Apple is open sourcing Swift Build”Submitted Bringing Swift and SwiftUI to Android as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLooks like it is free for your use case. Pricing page[0] shows $0 annual cost for small businesses, which is defined as > Educational institution, nonprofit, or business/individual with less than 250K USD annual revenue [0] https://skip.tools/pricing/
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on “Writing Gnome Apps with Swift”Submitted Skip: Native Swift on Android, Part 1: Setup, Compiling, Running, and Testing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd there's also SwiftUI for Android: https://skip.tools/blog/bringing-swift-to-android/
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on “Writing Gnome Apps with Swift”Submitted Skip: Build iOS and Android apps using Swift UI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's native SwiftUI and Swift so I want to avoid a rewrite. I am experimenting with porting my Swift code to web via WASM, now that SQLite WASM backed by IndexedDB is usable so I can reuse the data layer too. I'm also evaluating https://skip.tools for running my SwiftUI on Android.
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)”Submitted Swift Everywhere: Bringing Swift Packages to Android as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently wrote about using a native Swift toolchain for Android: https://skip.tools/blog/native-swift-on-android-1/
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on “Swift 6”Submitted Scrumskipper: Running Apple's SwiftUI sample app on Android as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://skip.tools/ Swift can be! Saw this the other day and looks interesting
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on “Five years of React Native at Shopify”Submitted Scrolling Like It's 2008 as a story · 3 points
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