Announcing the Swift SDK for Android

The Android workgroup is an open group, free for anyone to join, that aims to expand Swift to Android. Today, we are pleased to announce nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android.

This milestone reflects months of effort by the Android workgroup, building on many years of grassroots community effort. With the SDK, developers can begin developing Android applications in Swift, opening new avenues for cross-platform development and accelerating innovation across the mobile ecosystem.

→ swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android

Swift has grown over the last ten years to run on many platforms, from cloud services to Windows, browsers, and small devices. It lets developers share code between these platforms. The Android workgroup has now released preview toolchains that let you build Swift code for Android phones and tablets. You can download the Swift SDK for Android today, either with the Windows installer or on its own for Linux or macOS.

A guide shows how to set up your first Swift app on Android. Example projects help you see full apps working. Over a quarter of packages on the Swift17 Package Index already build for Android. You can start moving your Swift packages to Android now. The swift-java project helps mix Swift and Java code safely.

The workgroup is writing a plan for the future of Swift on Android. You can read it and give ideas. A project board shows what work is happening. Talk about your ideas or share apps on the Swift forums in the Android section.