Comment by LifeUtilityApps
2 years ago
Loving this so far, I've been working with it for a week now. I have a personal app, DownPay for iOS, that is built with SwiftUI that I want to bring to Android. I tried going the React Native route to build an android-only version but the context switching between SwiftUI, React Native, and then my day job made it challenging. I also tried Ionic and Ignite and wasn't successful with those either.
After testing the feasibility of other cross-platform frameworks, I landed on Skip. I LOVE that I don't have to break out of the "Swift" mental context, I just have to focus on writing an app in 1 language.
So before I commit fully I've been testing it out (building a demo app this week) and so far I am very impressed. The syntax to write platform-specific code (#if !SKIP #endif) is very easy to use once you get the hang of it.
It's amazing I don't have to learn Android to get something up and running at this speed with Skip. Hitting run in xcode and watching both emulators open feels like magic. I want to put this to the test so I plan to build a complete App with it from start to finish, ship it to both App Stores, and if all that goes smoothly I will proceed to migrate my main app using Skip.
> It's amazing I don't have to learn Android to get something up and running at this speed with Skip
Any thoughts on how you would debug issues on Android that don’t show up on iOS?
Skip generates native code, so you can open it in Android Studio and use all the native debugging tools
So every version you release you'll have to go back and fix the same bugs?
Or re-patch them in some way?
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If you know how given the point of this is not having to learn android
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