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
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Hosts:

Sebastian Aigner

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Bluesky


Márton Braun

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Bluesky



Guests:

Abe White

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Mastodon


Marc Prud'hommeaux

GitHub



(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 

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