Scade – Cross platform app development in Swift

scade.io

30 points·codnee··7 comments

Anyone to provide a bit of context ? I don't see how a brand new company can release an ide , plus a cross platform mobile sdk, plus a remote build environment, out of nowhere. I'd like to get the history behind this project.

Also, the Terms of Use page is completely empty, so nobody knows what they're getting into. Privacy Policy seems nonexistent too, but that's not really news.

This article was on HN two week ago and gives some background information: https://medium.com/compileswift/scade-cross-platform-mobile-...

The IDE is based on Eclipse, and there is private beta access via the Perfect slack.

Link to the Slack "inviter" if anyone is interested: http://www.perfect.ly

Nice article, although i'm more interested in the technic they used to have the swift code interact with the android sdk. Are they communicating through JNI to invoke the native android sdk, and if so how ?

https://scade.readme.io/v1.0/docs/how-scade-works

They're a startup that has been working away on this for quite a while, very under the radar. They're a small team of talented individuals who've done some pretty remarkable engineering IMHO.

And yes, while it's still a little rough around the edges (it's still a beta) it works as advertised.

Disclosure: I'm the author of the article mentioned.

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