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Swift Ported to Android

by adamjernst on 2/25/16, 12:59 PM with 140 comments

• by V-2 on 2/25/16, 5:33 PM

  Surprised noone mentions Kotlin. It's quite Swift-like, backed by JetBrains (Android Studio is based on their IntelliJ Idea), and 1.0 has only just been released. It has full interoperability with Java.

  Given the above, I don't see much point in using Swift, unless it's one of these projects that are about proving a point (nothing wrong with that and often very interesting).

• by manojlds on 2/25/16, 2:26 PM

  Interesting, in the context of Xamarin acquisition by Microsoft. Swift can very well spoil C#'s steam.

• by ungzd on 2/25/16, 2:52 PM

  Why Android requires special support? Isn't it just linux with quite standard libc and ABI to interact with Java counterpart?

• by bsimpson on 2/25/16, 4:30 PM

  UI in Swift is heavily tied to Cocoa, right? What tools exist to draw UI in Swift on another platform?

• by akerro on 2/25/16, 2:44 PM

  Interesting, but even Apple doesn't use switf on iOS. So is there really a point?