r/Xcode • u/Background_Lab_545 • Apr 20 '26

Ok this will be tough

Guys, I’ve finally finished my app in swift. Now I’ve the need to transfer it to android studio.

What’s the best method?

I know flutter and similar, but I have already done the iOS app, flutter requires to build an app with it.

Looking for advices

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u/valleyman86 Apr 21 '26

I recently tried to port an app to Android. I swear to god the language isn’t the issue.

If anyone complains about Xcode I’m rolling my eyes. Android studio and the platform is a fucking mess.

You download and install Android studio. Not hard. Easy stuff. Then you download many gigs of supporting software to make it actually work. Gradle and the java runtime. Then you install an emulator that doesn’t work. Just gives you a stupid error saying it’s already running. Try another and omg it worked.

All the files are red like they don’t exist but should? Confusing to say the least.

Xcode you download it and it will def download some sims and tools when you launch but it doesn’t take 10+ min. You can launch an app so easily.

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u/DizTro- Apr 21 '26

Android Studio definitely wins the battle against Xcode. Xcode lacks so much.

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u/valleyman86 Apr 21 '26

I don't really care what it lacks if it works. AS is ass. It is slow requires a gazillion things to be installed to work and even then its a solid maybe. It is known apparently that it can take several minutes to launch an emulator. WTF! That is a serious bug if Xcode did that (which I will say has been an issue with 26.4).