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You can use Swift on Android today with Skip Tools. https://skip.tools/ https://skip.tools/ The Skip devs are founding members of the Swift on Android working g
by dfabulich 1y ago
You can use Swift on Android today with Skip Tools. https://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 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 1y agoIf 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 1y agoIf 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