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Porting from Apple to Android using Claude

SkoGar

Published on September 16, 2026

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Porting from Apple to Android using Claude

Now that some of my apps are in the app store and I've shared them, I always think about what's next...
I promote Lookabout, but it's only available on the iPhone... I decided it was time to port it to Android, and I didn't know how to go about it... I also didn't have an Android Phone...
Sleeping overnight, I came up with a plan to ask Claude... I shared my thoughts and we discussed the best way to handle it...

We decided the best way to do this was for me to use Android Studio and enable Claude...
I chatted with the apps I wanted to port and they created playbooks describing their apps...
With the Playbook in the Android project folder, it had all the information it needed. It just needed me to tell it to get started with a simple prompt: What app are we building today?
It took less than an hour each to get working copies of Cascade, EmberDice, and Lookabout created and installed on my Google Pixel 10a.
I had the Xcode companion app open if there were any questions, because Android found bugs, which were helpful to find and needed to be fixed...
I saved Lookabout for last because it uses the phone camera and location services... I felt it would be more complicated... Lookabout created it's Playbook...

Port Playbook
Android started it's work... What happened next stunned me... Android Lookabout created a Feedback document that Xcode Lookabout could read... They worked together to resolve issues, by reading and commenting on the feedback in the same document...
Port Feedback
This type of work still amazes me, but I ported 3 apps in 3 hours... They are working drafts, but it's nice to have them on my new Pixel that wasn't there this morning...
Now I've been able to get different Claudes working on totally different platforms to communicate with each other in their own language... They clearly understand each other, and don't yell when one finds a fault in the other...

Android didn't need to read any of the Apple code, it just followed the playbook. The sounds in EmberDice sound exactly the same...
I'm learning that I don't need to be the messenger between Claudes on a higher level...

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