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Roughly a year after the effort was announced, the Apple-developed coding language, Swift, has just launched support for Android. With the Swift 6.3 update released earlier this year, the first ...

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Apple's Swift programming language now officially supports native Android app development. This new capability comes with Swift 6.3, which ships an officially maintained SDK and toolchain for Android.