In a slightly unconventional episode, Sebastian and Márton talk to the founders of Skip, an iOS-to-Android, Swift-to-Kotlin transpiler solution. Marc and Abe have a background working on both Apple platforms and the JVM, and their latest project is a bridge across these two ecosystems.

• Skip


• Skip.tools on GitHub


• Contributing to SkipUI webinar


• kdoctor

Hosts:

• Sebastian Aigner
  
  
  
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  • Bluesky
  
  
  
  


• Márton Braun
  
  
  
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Guests:

• Abe White
  
  
  
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• Marc Prud'hommeaux
  
  
  
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(0:00 ) Weather 
(2:02 ) Introductions 
(3:10 ) ⁠Elevator pitch⁠ 
(3:45 ) The initial idea
(6:14 ) Pivot around the server-side 
(8:35 ) Skip(.tools) 
(8:56 ) The target audience 
(9:58 ) What about Android devs? 
(12:11 ) The current state 
(14:57 ) Pricing and components 
(16:43 ) ⁠Contributing to SkipUI⁠ 
(18:55 ) Reimplementing everything 
(23:07 ) ⁠The Skip stack⁠ 
(26:17 ) Wrapping JVM types 
(28:27 ) Writing Kotlin in Swift?! 
(29:56 ) Tooling support 
(32:02 ) There’s a Gradle project! 
(34:39 ) iOS API coverage 
(38:24 ) Platform differences 
(40:10 ) Data storage 
(44:31 ) Building on JVM libraries 
(46:42 ) JSON problems 
(48:00 ) Testing the Skip stack 
(51:42 ) SwiftUI to Compose 
(58:21 ) IDE experiences 
(1:03:35 ) Conclusion