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Re: [NEWS] Apple's Swift can now be used to also make Android apps

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> <https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/26/developers-can-make-android-apps-with-swift/>

Thanks for posting this timely information, as the more we know about the
two platforms, the better our decisions will be. This is apparently useful
for iOS app developers who want to also port their apps to Android. 

Before this, if a developer built an iOS app in Swift, bringing it to
Android meant rewriting most of the chunks of the code in Java or Kotlin.

With Swift officially supported on Android, developers can reuse much of
their existing Swift codebase. But they still need to build
Android-specific user interfaces, but the core components can be shared.

Swift is just a programming language, so this means developers can now
write parts of Android apps in Swift instead of being forced to use Java or
Kotlin.

The developer will likely still use Android Studio to create the Android
app.

Writing Swift code in Xcode is free, but to publish apps on the App Store,
developers must pay Apple's $99/year developer program fee (compared to
Google's one-time $25 fee for life).

Both are free though if all you want to do is put your own apps on your own
device, but Apple's restriction is that your app dies every single week.

Meanwhile, the Android app lasts forever.

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