alt Hacker NewsSomehow I never heard of this. How does this compare with SwiftCrossUI? Skip is also very compelling (as it runs actual SwiftUI natively as Swift and translates it to Compose).
I see - compared with SwiftCrossUI and Skip, this is SwiftUI-like but only for Android. The other two allow you to write SwiftUI or SwiftUI-like, and run on both Apple platforms + Android (or elsewhere).
It’s a different approach with different goals.
SwifDroid is about native Android development in Swift. You’re not writing cross-platform UI. You’re writing Android-specific UI in Swift, using Android’s own view system and APIs directly. The goal is to enable full, idiomatic Android apps entirely in Swift, including activities, fragments, AndroidX, and Material, without touching Java, Kotlin, or XML.
While the others focus on “write UI once, run anywhere,” often with trade-offs in UX, SwifDroid focuses on writing natively for Android and having full control from Swift.