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Comment by soohyunbae | Hacker News Reader

good product. Also for Android?

Thank you!

Android: not yet, and not from me. But stay tuned; given the interest this saw today, I hope someone with Android skills (that I'm lacking) will jump in.

Claude can do it within hours? give your iOS code, and ask "hey, make an Android app for this iOS app". in 2026, you don't need an Android engineer, but $100 for Claude Code.

The app is made in Swift and relies heavily on Watch Connectivity and AlarmKit (among others when you take the widgets and Live Activity into account, which may be omitted). I assume, none of those maps obviously to Android SDKs.

And in my experience, Claude's first results are fine for a preview, but less so for a reliable product. You can get there, but only if you can follow or even guide the engineering and make the right decisions and tradeoffs along the way. I would definitely need to learn Android to work with Claude.

Don't get me wrong, but I can't allocate that time atm. And I don't think I'm the best person to do it.

Theoretically, Apple says you can now (or will be able to) write Android apps in Swift.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ogjkq7/developers_c...

That sounds interesting and worth a look. Although my experience with such cross platform bindings is that they tend to be leaky especially around system-dependent things like alarms and connectivity. But I’ll give it a try when I have a few hours to spend.

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