Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

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Post by trymamboapp » Mon, May 04, 2026, 1:10 PM UTC

tauri 2 + rust + webview give you a native feeling if you don't need any Apple frameworks

Re: Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

#12

Post by hackermanai » Mon, May 04, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

trymamboapp wrote: post #11

tauri 2 + rust + webview give you a native feeling if you don't need any Apple frameworks

> .. webview ..

That would make it an web app tho. Not sure if that's what OP wants when making Swift apps.

Re: Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

#13

Post by IVski » Mon, May 04, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

#14

Post by skyberrys » Tue, May 05, 2026, 3:26 AM UTC

whynotmaybe wrote: post #6

brudgers wrote: post #3

https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/zero-to-swift-e... You could probably use Emacs for Swift...just like for about every other language. Whether you still must download a monstrosity is left as an exercise for the reader.

I'm using flutter and had to download xcode to build the app so I guess it's a necessary step.

I'm using flutter too, I've found a website called codemagic, so I can make builds for iOS. My laptop is windows. The bulk of development is building for Android.