THE Android Swift Workgroup announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a toolkit for developing Android mobile apps with Apple’s Swift language.
Instructions for getting started with the SDK, announced October 24can be found on Swift.org.
The Swift SDK for Android paves the way for cross-development and accelerating innovation in the mobile ecosystem, Android Working Group member Joannis Orlandos wrote in announcing the release. The SDK offers libraries, headers and other resources to generate and run Swift code for the Android target. Since its open source launch in 2015, Swift has evolved from a language focused on building applications for Darwin-based systems such as iOS and macOS to a cross-platform development language supporting Linux, Windows, and various embedded systems. With the release of the Swift SDK for Android, it is now possible to use Swift for Android app development as well, Orlandos wrote.
