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Sounds amazing. From a career point of view it is good for a dev as they click up native skills instead of some abstraction layer, while being able to do cross platform.

Been a long time since I worked on mobile (pre Kotlin!) but how does it handle differences in the UIs. Do you need "is android" directives. Are there Swift objects in your library that are android specific.

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Since both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose are declarative and semantic user-interface frameworks, components are generally presented in what the system believes to be the "correct" layout. So if you have a `SwiftUI.VStack` (which translates to a Compose `Column`) of buttons and text fields, then they will generally be presented with the "correct" spacing and alignment for the platform.

That being said, there is often plenty of need for customization with any but the most trivial app. So Skip has a lot of options for that, which is covered in the Platform Customization guide at https://skip.tools/docs/platformcustomization/.

Skip is definitely a great way to ease into the Android dev world.

Lots of options for adding platform-specific code - including being able to directly call Kotlin/Java APIs from your Swift, move back and forth between SwiftUI and Compose, etc.

https://skip.tools/docs/platformcustomization/

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