Empower Apps

Marc Prud'hommeaux explains how you can get started building Android apps in Swift, what's the future of the Swift on Android working group, and what's FOSDEM.

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• Marc Prud'hommeaux (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
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  • @marcprux.bsky.social — Bluesky
  • marcprux (Marc Prud'hommeaux) | GitHub

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• skip.tools (@[email protected]) - mas.to
• skipapp-showcase
• skiptools/skipapp-showcase: Sample Skip app demonstrating SkipUI components for iOS and Android
• Skip Showcase - Apps on Google Play
• Swift Everywhere: Bringing Swift Packages to Android
• Swift on Android Working Group - Community Showcase - Swift Forums
• FOSDEM 2025 - A Free Software App Store for iOS: the App Fair Project's perspective on the DMA

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Origins of Skip.Tools


• (07:59) - Technical Deep Dive: Swift to Kotlin


• (27:31) - Swift on Android Working Group


• (31:37) - Transpiled vs. Natively Compiled Swift


• (42:32) - Skip Showcase and Practical Applications


• (51:33) - What is FOSDEM?

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