Xcode 26 beta, Skip, and Liquid Glass

[marcprux]

We are pleased to announce that Skip works fine with the Xcode 26 beta, and supports the new Liquid Glass¹ visual appearance just fine. We wrote about our experience and observations on our blog at: https://skip.tools/blog/skip-next-gen-mobile-ui/

One caveat, though, is that while Skip Lite's transpiled mode works fine, with Skip Fuse's natively compiled mode, you do need to continue to keep around the non-beta of Xcode 16, and you need to ensure that your default Xcode remains pointed to that installation. You can still load and run projects in Xcode 26-beta, but because Skip's native mode relies on the the host toolchain to perform the native builds, until there is a Swift 6.2 compiler release, we need to continue to rely on the frameworks included in the Xcode 16 install.

So in short, do not xcode-select --switch to the Xcode beta. Or, if you already did, switch back with:

$ sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app

Please let us know if you encounter any issues, either with Skip Lite or Skip Fuse. You can search and create issues at https://github.com/skiptools/skip/issues, and reach out to the community on our Slack or via these forums.

Footnotes

1. This should come as no surprise to anyone who understands that Skip doesn't intermediate on the iOS side of your app, but it does bear calling out. ↩