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title: "Platform Conventions - Air Market"
description: "You are building a native app for both iOS and Android and each has its own way of doing things. This helps you design to each platform's conventions: what each one requires, where the two go differe…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/platform-conventions"
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[Air Market](/) / [Design](/category/design) / Platform Conventions

Skill by [MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

# Platform Conventions

Know where iOS and Android disagree before you pick a side

## What this does

You are building a native app for both iOS and Android and each has its own way of doing things. This helps you design to each platform's conventions: what each one requires, where the two go different ways, and when it makes sense to use the same design on both anyway. Reach for it when you are shipping native.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Follow what each OS actually mandates
- See where iOS and Android diverge
- Decide when to unify a design across both

## Information

**Platform Conventions at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [MC Dean](/@owl-listener) |
| Category | [Design](/category/design) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 6 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [Owl-Listener/designer-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/ui-design/skills/platform-conventions) |
| GitHub stars | 2,144 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Platform Conventions and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Platform Conventions's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e |
| Content hash | 7fb292a413ccd44c53cf4526eccbd96d4331a7f485aa7410c1401ac83c63042a |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/blob/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/ui-design/skills/platform-conventions/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Platform Conventions](/security/platform-conventions)

## About Platform Conventions

This covers designing to iOS and Android conventions - what each operating system mandates, the places where the two diverge, and the cases where unifying makes sense.

Use it when you are shipping native apps. Adapting to breakpoints is a responsive design concern, and matching what competitors do is covered by Jakob's law.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Platform Conventions safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Platform Conventions and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 20e34c4a587e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/platform-conventions.

### How do I install Platform Conventions?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/platform-conventions on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/ui-design/skills/platform-conventions. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Design listings](/category/design)
- [Everything by MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/platform-conventions>