Going from Swift to Kotlin with Skip
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 5 min
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Episode description
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.
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Guests:
(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
(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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