Roughly a year after the effort was announced, the Apple-developed coding language, Swift, has just launched support for Android.
With the Swift 6.3 update released earlier this year, the first official release of the Swift SDK for Android has arrived. Developers can now start creating native Android programs in Swift, while also updating existing Swift projects to support building for Android.
Swift’s latest changelog explains:
Swift 6.3 includes the first official release 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 Swift Java and Swift Java JNI Core to integrate Swift code into existing Android applications written in Kotlin/Java. This is a significant milestone that opens new opportunities for cross-platform development in Swift.
As the changelong notes, this opens “new opportunities for cross-platform development.” In theory, this should allow easier development of Android apps based on iOS counterparts.
Kotlin is still the primary coding language for Android, but the addition of Swift is exciting nonetheless. More details are available on the Swift website.
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