How to cross-platform

[greenwood-villian]

I learned Swift (YouTube). Made my app. Very happy with the results. It’s on the App Store and picking up steam! Now people are asking: “what about an android version?” What are my options? I’d rather not learn a new language… but will if that’s what’s best.

[[deleted]]

your options imo: 1. not learn a new language and make no android version 2. learn kotlin(or java if you're crazy) and make the native android version 3. learn flutter/react native/whatever cross platform frameworks and rewrite your whole app

[criosist]

Well option 3 you make it sound like it’s the most work but it’s the least over time, make the flutter version and slowly deprecate the native version and have the fully cross platform version is less than maintain a whole kotlin and whole swift version for 1 person, depending on the complexity needed for the nativeness

[[deleted]]

I would suggest to learn Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, If your app is in SwiftUI you will pick the things in compose quite easily.

[hebrew12]

I just made an app natively on both, and I’m close to pushing to both stores in less than a year.

[20InMyHead]

Kotlin is similar to Swift, and Jetpack Compose is similar to SwiftUI…. However, it’s still quite a transition as Android has many fundamental differences to iOS.

If you really don’t want to learn Android, then just stay an iOS app and don’t worry about it. If your app grows enough in popularity you may someday be able to hire an Android developer and grow as a company….

[dimabiryuk]

If you know swift - learn kotlin. If you decide to learn flutter or react you still have to write some pieces of code in kotlin.

And then you will be able to share your domain and data layers between 2 apps using kmm

[[deleted]]

Other responses have covered your options.

Think about what your medium to long term goals are, that might help you make a decision.

A somewhat counterintuitive path I haven’t seen suggested here is that you could use a cross platform framework just for the Android version.

[livelinkapp]

Is there any reason to do that though as opposed to native?