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    Announcing the Android Workgroup

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    30 points desertmonad | 13 comments | 26 Jun 25 13:49 UTC | HN request time: 2.233s | source | bottom
    1. 4b11b4 ◴[26 Jun 25 16:20 UTC] No.44388860[source]▶
    Does this help LiveView Native efforts?

    (naive question)

    2. zerr ◴[26 Jun 25 16:23 UTC] No.44388876[source]▶
    Did they finish porting the core lib to Windows?
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    3. CharlesW ◴[26 Jun 25 16:48 UTC] No.44389089[source]▶
    Foundation (the Swift Standard Library), Dispatch (the concurrency library), and XCTest (the testing framework) are all available and functional on Windows.
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    4. bestouff ◴[26 Jun 25 16:52 UTC] No.44389116[source]▶
    I always found non-native apps too out-of-place. Please use Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android.
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    5. mattl ◴[26 Jun 25 19:04 UTC] No.44390313[source]▶
    Swift is just a programming language, I thought?
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    6. v5v3 ◴[26 Jun 25 19:42 UTC] No.44390589{3}[source]▶
    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.

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    7. mattl ◴[26 Jun 25 19:49 UTC] No.44390638{4}[source]▶
    Yeah Swift isn’t SwiftUI.
    8. mhast ◴[26 Jun 25 19:55 UTC] No.44390683{4}[source]▶
    Kotlin multiplatform has been around for some time if you want that. But I guess it makes sense to be able to approach it from the other end as well if you're mainly an iOS shop.
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    9. dfabulich ◴[26 Jun 25 21:08 UTC] No.44391392[source]▶
    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.

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    10. v5v3 ◴[26 Jun 25 22:25 UTC] No.44392088{5}[source]▶
    It's the only approach that can be taken, as Android being open source can make Swift a first class supported language. Apple will be apple.
    11. zerr ◴[26 Jun 25 22:25 UTC] No.44392091{3}[source]▶
    I remember some crucial parts were not implemented a few months ago.
    12. bentocorp ◴[27 Jun 25 02:05 UTC] No.44393167[source]▶
    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.