The project didn't exist in a vacuum. It relied on community-driven resources to bridge the gap between high-end console hardware and mobile chips:
In 2022, the emulator team achieved what many thought impossible: running commercial Nintendo Switch games on Android devices using a from-the-ground-up architecture. The Breakthrough of 2022 2022---Skyline--Android-starts-running-Nintendo-Switch-games
While Skyline had been in development for over a year, 2022 marked its transition from a technical concept to a functional emulator. The project didn't exist in a vacuum