Going from Swift to Kotlin with Skip

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 Website Bluesky Márton Braun Website Bluesky Guests: Abe White Twitter 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