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A comment on Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase.

Re:Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a ... by wirelesspotat on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:50PM (#41385288)
Good to see Skip on the home page! We were evaluating Skip just a couple weeks ago for a side project.

The issue we ran into is that we've already built a native iOS app with SwiftUI + a bit of UIKit. Integrating Skip with an existing app seemed like a significant task

Does that hold true in your experiences? Do you have any examples of small- or medium-sized existing apps that have migrated to Skip?

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Re:Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a ... by abewhite on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:59PM (#41385348)
Yes, the docs even say that integrating into an existing app is way harder than starting with a new one!

https://skip.tools/docs/gettingstarted/#existing_development

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Re:Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a ... by yumraj on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @07:53PM (#41385689)
Have not read the docs, but what’s the reason for that?

Is it not just a transpiler, since then it should work at any stage. No?

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Re:Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a ... by wahnfrieden on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:27PM (#41385927)
It’s missing things that are harder to work around if you already have code relying on those missing bits or done in an architecture it can’t transpile
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