Apple generally does not give Android the time of day, but that does not prevent the company’s rapid coding language from extending to the development of Android applications.
In the current state of things today, Android applications are generally coded in Kotlin, but Apple seeks to provide its rapid coding language as an alternative. Apple launched its coding language for the first time in 2014 thinking of its own platforms, but currently supports Windows and Linux.
In a announcement This week, Swift has opened an “Android working group” which “will establish and maintain Android as a officially sustained platform for Swift”.
Some of the key pillars that the working group seeks to accomplish includes:
- Improve and maintain Android management for official Swift distribution, eliminating the need for or down or downstream fixes
- Recommend improvements to Swift Basic Packages such as Foundation and Dispatch to better work with Android idioms
- Work with the platform management group to officially define the levels of support for the platform in general, then work on the realization of official support of a particular level for Android
- Determine the range of levels and architectures of Android API supported for rapid integration
- Develop continuous integration For the SWIFT project which includes Android tests in the processing of the traction request.
- Identify and recommend best practices to make the bridge between Swift and Android Java SDK and SWIFT library packaging with Android applications
- Develop the support for Swift Debogging Applications on Android
- Advise and help add a support for Android to various Swift Community Swift packages
Technically, developers could already use Swift to create Android applications, but only with the help of third -party tools such as like “Scade”. He was reported years There is that Google was trying to use Swift with Android, but nothing has ever come to it, and Kotlin was adopted in 2017 And since then. Google was also at some point to support Swift on its Fuchsia operating system.
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