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Given that Swift is open source, I'm surprised Android hasn't made it a 1st party alternative to using Kotlin. They could capture alot more developers this way

Given that Swift is open source, I'm surprised Android hasn't made it a 1st party alternative to using Kotlin. They could capture alot more developers this way, as learning 1 language for both mobile platforms would facilitate more iOS only apps (there are many still even today) to get ported to Android. This may finally make Android tablets viable, as the app ecosystem for tablets isn't as good as iPadOS

pjmlp 3y ago
Android has 70% of the world market, there is no reason to care about Swift. Also Kotlin and Android Studio are mostly developed by JetBrains that is in bed with Google for Android tooling, if anything I expect more Google acquiring JetBrains than supporting Swift on Android.
cxr 3y ago
Objective-C has been open source for even longer, and Cocoa and the associated mobile toolkits eminently clonable. I'm rather more surprised that Google didn't make an 80/20 iOS compatibility toolkit 15 years ago. If they didn't do that then when iOS was dominating the hearts and minds of pretty much every developer behind any noteworthy mobile app, then I wouldn't expect them to make Swift a first-class priority today, when Android has basically "won" on the global scale.