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What does this mean for React Native? Is Swift now going to be the de facto language for Mobile (and maybe Desktop) development?
React Native is popular because there’s a thousand times more React devs than native devs.
And people like to use what they know.
Also React dev experience makes anything Swift related look like stone age technology
I'm just getting started in iOS development as a hobby, but what does this mean? Can I now build my app in Xcode with an Android target and use that binary in the Play Store? It surely can't be that easy now is it?
> Can I now build my app in Xcode with an Android target and use that binary in the Play Store? No. The vision document[1] lays out the direction of travel. Currently the focus is on shared business logic and libraries, rather than full native applications (although that's certainly a goal, albeit a very long term one). [1]: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/pull/2946/files
This doc you linked is from August.
The blog post from today includes, in fact at the very top an XCode Swift project emulating a Pixel 9.
The docs include a detailed Getting Started for Android and they even have an Android examples repo.
Hence the SDK.
By all means, it very much is possible to build Android Swift apps in XCode.
https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/swift-sdk-for-a...
I'm just getting started in iOS development as a hobby, but what does this mean? Can I now build my app in Xcode with an Android target and use that binary in the Play Store? It surely can't be that easy now is it?
But it's not there yet
What does this mean for React Native? Is Swift now going to be the de facto language for Mobile (and maybe Desktop) development?
My app [0] uses a lot of metal shader code - I'm guessing there's no easy way to bring that across?
That's... not encouraging.
What does this mean for React Native? Is Swift now going to be the de facto language for Mobile (and maybe Desktop) development?
Not a chance React Native is popular because there’s a thousand times more React devs than native devs. And people like to use what they know. Also React dev experience makes anything Swift related look like stone age technology
How so?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Can I now build my app in Xcode with an Android target and use that binary in the Play Store? No. The vision document[1] lays out the direction of travel. Currently the focus is on shared business logic and libraries, rather than full native applications (although that's certainly a goal, albeit a very long term one). [1]: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/pull/2946/files
What do you mean? This doc you linked is from August. The blog post from today includes, in fact at the very top an XCode Swift project emulating a Pixel 9. The docs include a detailed Getting Started for Android and they even have an Android examples repo. Hence the SDK. By all means, it very much is possible to build Android Swift apps in XCode. https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/swift-sdk-for-a...
You can build the Swift part in Xcode, VSCode or your favorite editor. But the Android builds don't work with Xcode today.
"You got Swift in my Android."
> Over 25% of packages in the Swift Package Index already build for Android That's... not encouraging.