About a year after the effort was announced, the Apple-developed coding language Swift just launched support for Android.
With the Swift 6.3 update released earlier this year came the first official release of the Swift SDK for Android. Developers can now start building native Android programs in Swift while updating existing Swift projects to support building for Android.
The latest Swift changelog explains:
Swift 6.3 includes the first official version of the Swift SDK for Android. With this SDK, you can start developing native Android programs in Swift, update your Swift packages to support building for Android, and use fast java and Fast Java JNI core to integrate Swift code into existing Android apps written in Kotlin/Java. This is an important milestone that opens up new opportunities for cross-platform development in Swift.
As Changelong points out, this opens up “new opportunities for cross-platform development.” In theory, this should allow for easier development of Android apps based on their iOS counterparts.
Kotlin is still the primary coding language for Android, but the addition of Swift is exciting all the same. More details are available on the Swift website.
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