Taimur Asad·

Apple’s Swift Programming Language Is Coming To An Android App Near You

Swift, the programming language used to create apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other Apple platforms, could be used to build Android apps in the future.

That’s after MacRumors reported that a dedicated Android Working Group has been established within the Swift open-source project. Swift has been around since 2014 and has already expanded beyond Apple products to the Linux and Windows platforms.

The Swift project announced an effort to bring Android support to Swift earlier this week.

According to the Swift forums, the Android Working Group’s charter outlines a clear set of responsibilities aimed at integrating Android into Swift’s officially supported platform ecosystem. These include ensuring Swift can be compiled and run on Android without relying on unofficial forks or downstream modifications, enhancing Swift’s standard libraries for better compatibility with Android APIs, and introducing native tools and workflows for developers targeting Android using Swift.

While Android developers have already been able to build apps using Swift, doing so has been complicated by the need for third-party solutions often created by individual developers for their projects. By adding Android support to the official Swift distribution, the need for such tools would be removed.

If Swift does come to Android apps, it will compete with Kotlin, Google’s own choice for app development that launched back in 2017. It’s likely that developers who build apps for both iOS and Android would benefit from a switch to Swift, streamlining the development of both apps.

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