Even my VMs can't escape Windows updates 💀 My remote build job froze, and when I switched over to my PC's HDMI I found that the VM had restarted for a Windows update

I've recently been searching around for open source SwiftUI apps to port to non-Apple platforms using SwiftCrossUI. Mostly as an exercise to discover the needs of real world apps, but also to bring existing macOS apps to more platforms! I've begun by porting ZenTime (an exam study timer)

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SwiftCrossUI's Android support has gotten to the point where my sudoku app written with SwiftCrossUI runs on Android without any UI-specific code changes! (I just had to work around a weird HTTPS issue unrelated to SwiftCrossUI)

SwiftCrossUI's Android support is quickly catching up with its iOS support, and it's becoming possible to build genuinely useful UIs for all major platforms with SCUI. If you know a software company or app dev firm that might be interested in experimenting with SwiftCrossUI, please hook me up!

SwiftCrossUI's Android support has gotten to the point where my sudoku app written with SwiftCrossUI runs on Android without any UI-specific code changes! (I just had to work around a weird HTTPS issue unrelated to SwiftCrossUI)

SwiftCrossUI v0.8.0 is out now! In this release we've mostly been working on Android support, and fixing bugs. This release also includes moreSwift’s new LLM policy (LLM_POLICY.md) for contributors and community members, which is particularly topical in current times. github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Release v0.8.0 · moreSwift/swift-cross-ui

In this release we've mostly been working on Android support, and fixing bugs. We've also been working on various other features in the background that haven't landed yet. On the admin side of thin...

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I've just published the February and March SwiftCrossUI development update video. It was a bit delayed, so some of the information has been superseded since filming, but it should be interesting nonetheless! youtu.be/RzT7_priAE8

SwiftCrossUI Development Update (Feb & March 2026)

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SwiftCrossUI 0.7.0 introduced support for hot reloading on Linux! If you'd like to try it out, install the latest commit of Swift Bundler, and create a new project from the SwiftCrossUI hot reloading template. Then you can run the project with the ‘--hot’ flag, and everything should "just work” (TM)

moreSwift just joined Open Source Collective 🎉 If you've ever considered sponsoring the development of SwiftCrossUI or Swift Bundler, there's never been a better time! opencollective.com/moreswift

moreSwift - Open Collective

moreSwift enables developers to build cross platform apps with Swift. We maintain SwiftCrossUI and Swift Bundler.

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Windows apps built with SwiftCrossUI are now 200mb smaller! 🎉 SwiftPM's static linking support has recently improved on Windows, allowing me to merge swift-winui and all of its dependencies into a single monorepo with static linking. Static linking lets the linker drop a lot of unused code.

SwiftCrossUI's AndroidBackend now supports sheets thanks to Beberka! github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Mia Koring (a frequent SwiftCrossUI contributor) just released KeyringAccess, essentially KeychainAccess for Linux! Packages like KeyringAccess help to reduce the barrier for porting macOS apps to Linux github.com/amethystsoft...

GitHub - amethystsoft/KeyringAccess: Pure Swift implementation of the Secret Service API on Linux, both high and low level APIs available

Pure Swift implementation of the Secret Service API on Linux, both high and low level APIs available - amethystsoft/KeyringAccess

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SwiftCrossUI v0.6.0 is out now. This release brings a ton of Android feature parity improvements thanks to Beberka, and Gradient support thanks to Mia Koring! This release also includes the new DocC tutorials that Kaleb Ascevich created from our existing how-to guides. github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Release v0.6.0 · moreSwift/swift-cross-ui

This release brings a whole host of AndroidBackend feature parity improvements—mostly thanks to @bbrk24—and gradient support thanks to @MiaKoring! And on the documentation side of things, @kaascevi...

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Thanks to Mia Koring, SwiftCrossUI now support gradients! (linear, radial, and angular/conical) github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Kaleb Ascevich recently converted SwiftCrossUI's quick start documentation and platform-specific setup guides into DocC tutorials, with screenshots and all! github.com/moreSwift/sw...

SwiftCrossUI now supports WebViews on Android thanks to Beberka’s recent PR! github.com/moreSwift/sw...

I've recently merged some big AppBackend protocol changes into SwiftCrossUI. Kaleb Ascevich, who first contributed to SCUI earlier this year, refactored the 2000-line protocol into about 3 dozen smaller protocols, roughly separating the API surface by feature.

SwiftCrossUI's AndroidBackend has been hanging for a few hundred milliseconds after each view update, so Beberka collected a flame graph to investigate. It turns out, Android's RelativeLayout view measures each child twice per measurement pass, leading to exponential time complexity when nested!

The SwiftCrossUI ControlsExample is starting to look a lot more complete on Android thanks to Beberka's recent AndroidBackend PRs! Pickers: github.com/moreSwift/sw... Toggle buttons, switches, and checkboxes: github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Worked on implementing basic drag and drop for SwiftCrossUI today, and it's coming along well! But there are still quite a few edge cases to iron out. Content types are hard to pin down, and abstracting over 5 different platforms makes things rather tedious.

SwiftCrossUI v0.5.0 is out now, with a very basic Android backend 👀 Using the Android backend requires using the main branch of Swift Bundler (which supports compiling Swift apps to Android APKs and managing Android devices/emulators). github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Release v0.5.0 · moreSwift/swift-cross-ui

The headline feature of this release is the new AndroidBackend (which is still in a very early stage; so far most of what I've done has been laying the groundwork). My focus has mostly been on Swif...

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I've updated the SwiftCrossUI repository to publish its docs to GitHub Pages via the deploy-pages GitHub action instead of writing them to the gh-pages branch. The repository used to take 2.5 minutes to clone on my home WiFi, and after deleting the gh-pages branch it now takes under 2 seconds 🎉

SwiftCrossUI v0.3.0 brings a few SwiftUI feature parity improvements, some bug fixes, and perhaps most notably for users, a huge amount of documentation improvements by Kaleb Ascevich. github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Release v0.3.0 · moreSwift/swift-cross-ui

Development has been a little bit quiet since v0.2.1 (around 2 weeks ago) because I've been focussing much more on Swift Bundler, in particular getting it ready for its v3.0.0 release, and improvin...

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I've just released SwiftCrossUI v0.2.0 (two and a half years after v0.1.0), and I'm aiming to begin making regular releases now that I'm focusing on SwiftCrossUI full time. 492 commits, 127 PRs, and 77k changed lines. github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Release v0.2.0 - 2.5 years later · moreSwift/swift-cross-ui

Overview The headline feature of the past 2.5 years of work is probably the new layout system for most users. It standardizes layout behaviour across all backends, making it much easier to make you...

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Swift Bundler can now automatically locate compatible Swift Android SDK + Swift toolchain pairs on the user's behalf. It also supports automatically installing and launching apps on Android devices and emulators.

The Ladybird browser project has inspired me to begin making regular SwiftCrossUI development update videos. The first one is up on YouTube now and covers the last two months of SwiftCrossUI development. Let me know what you think! youtu.be/HgRO7eIHkyE

SwiftCrossUI development update (Dec 2025 & Jan 2026)

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One of SwiftCrossUI’s amazing contributors, Mia Koring, recently presented a lightning talk about SwiftCrossUI at the Swift Pre-FOSDEM Community Event. Go check out the recording on YouTube if you missed it! youtu.be/EC9qVCYBVyk?...

SwiftCrossUI: Swift apps, everywhere

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Made a small utility for checking in on my repositories at a glance. It solves something that has bothered me for a while, which is that GitHub doesn't display a diff from the latest review to current changes (instead it shows which *files* changed since the last review but diffs against the base).

I've been working on Android support for Swift Bundler this past week or so, and it can now bundle SwiftCrossUI applications into Android APKs fully automatically 🎉 To finish off basic Android support, I still have to implement Android device/emulator discovery and automatic APK running.

As SwiftCrossUI and Swift Bundler have grown, it’s become clear that they deserve to live under their own org. For that reason, I’ve created the moreSwift org and transferred SwiftCrossUI and Swift from my personal account to the org. “Create your next app with moreSwift” 😉 github.com/moreSwift

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moreSwift helps developers to build cross platform apps with Swift - moreSwift

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