"Beyond pricing, there's a deeper concern about durability. Developers are understandably wary of building their entire app strategy on a small company's paid, closed-source tool. What if the company goes under? Gets acquired and shut down? What happens to their apps? In a nutshell that's the reason why Skip is going open source: even if the current development team were to disappear, the solution would continue to exist, preserving the investment developers have made in it."
"According to the Skip team, the rapid evolution of UI frameworks on both Android and iOS, with Material Expressive and Liquid Glass, has created a situation where using legacy cross-platform UI frameworks can lead to "dated interfaces, weaker user experiences, and real competitive disadvantages". By contrast, Skip enables fully native user experiences on both platforms. In fact, the Skip framework brings SwiftUI to Android by bridging it to Jetpack Compose."
Skip transitioned from a paid, subscription-based product to fully open source after three years of development. The previous licensing model included exceptions for indie developers and free apps and helped bootstrap the product without outside investment. The move to open source aligns Skip with major free development tools and addresses developer expectations for free tooling. Durability concerns motivated the change to ensure the solution persists even if the original team disappears. Skip bridges SwiftUI to Android via Jetpack Compose, enabling fully native user experiences on both platforms and avoiding dated interfaces from legacy cross-platform frameworks.
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