Skip – compile native UI for both iOS and Android

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Skip: One Swift Codebase. Two Native Platforms.<br>Skip to content One Swift Codebase.<br>Two Native Platforms.<br>Write your app in Swift and SwiftUI. Skip compiles it natively for iOS and produces real Jetpack Compose for Android — from a single codebase, with no added runtime.

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How Skip Works<br>Section titled “How Skip Works”

Your app runs as native SwiftUI on iOS and native Jetpack Compose on Android. There is no intermediary rendering engine — each platform uses its own recommended UI toolkit, so system themes, accessibility, and platform conventions work automatically.

As you develop in Xcode, the Skip plugin continuously builds the Android version alongside iOS. Launch once and see your app running on both the iOS Simulator and Android emulator simultaneously.

Skip Advantages<br>Section titled “Skip Advantages”

widgets<br>SwiftUI, All the Way Down

Write your UI once in SwiftUI. On iOS it runs as-is. On Android, Skip<br>produces native Jetpack Compose — preserving layout, accessibility, and<br>each platform’s conventions. No mimicry, no uncanny valley.

Learn more → bolt<br>No Runtime. No Bloat.

Skip works entirely at build time. Your shipped app contains no added<br>runtime, no embedded engine, and no garbage collector on iOS.<br>The result: small binaries and predictable performance.

Learn more → rocket_launch<br>Native Performance by Design

Skip apps launch fast and stay responsive because they are real native<br>code — identical in performance to hand-written Swift on iOS and<br>hand-written Kotlin on Android. No bridge tax, no frame drops from<br>garbage collection pauses.

Learn more → code<br>First Party IDEs

Stay in Xcode for day-to-day development — your existing workflows,<br>shortcuts, and debugging tools all work unchanged. Use Android Studio<br>when you need platform-specific tuning.

Learn more → sync_alt<br>Seamless Android Interop

Call any Kotlin or Java API directly from your shared code. Integrate<br>Android SDKs, Jetpack libraries, or third-party services without complex<br>bridging layers or plugin systems.

Learn more → lock_open<br>Open Source, Built for the Long Term

Skip is free, open source, and community-funded — no strings attached.<br>Your iOS app has zero dependency on Skip, so you can stop using it any time<br>without rewriting a single line of iOS code.

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