Announcing the Android Workgroup

https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-the-android-workgroup/80666

by desertmonad • 1 year ago

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4b11b4• 1 year ago

Does this help LiveView Native efforts?

(naive question)

zerr2• 1 year ago

Did they finish porting the core lib to Windows?

CharlesW• 1 year ago

Foundation (the Swift Standard Library), Dispatch (the concurrency library), and XCTest (the testing framework) are all available and functional on Windows.

zerr2• 1 year ago

I remember some crucial parts were not implemented a few months ago.

bestouff3• 1 year ago

I always found non-native apps too out-of-place. Please use Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android.

mattl3• 1 year ago

Swift is just a programming language, I thought?

v5v32• 1 year ago

Yes.

Unless I am also mistaken, they are seeking to make a supported language to android development.

Which will save mobile devs having to learn two languages, and also allow reuse of code.

dfabulich• 1 year ago

You can use Swift on Android today with Skip Tools. https://skip.tools/ The Skip devs are founding members of the Swift on Android working group.

When using Skip Fuse, your Swift code compiles to 100% native Android ARM code.

They've also reimplemented ~60% of SwiftUI on Android, in an open-source library, SkipUI. https://github.com/skiptools/skip-ui SkipUI works way better than you'd think, and anyway, it's totally optional.

You can just write Swift against native Android APIs and it works fine.

bentocorp• 1 year ago

If Apple was really serious about combating the use of Electron and other cross-platform frameworks they would seriously support (and possibly even fund) a tool like this.

Despite the issues, if Swift and SwiftUI were available and compelling for Android then it may help to give Apple greater mindshare of developers.

akmarinov• 1 year ago

If Apple cared, they would’ve just included “no cross-platform apps” in their Appstore ToS and they’d be dead the next day.

That’s how Apple fights problems these days - gatekeeping and regulation.

They don’t care though, cross platform apps bring money the same way as any app

Announcing the Android Workgroup

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