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Android developers can now make apps using Apple’s Swift

Apple’s Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps.

Swift logo with an orange background next to the green Android robot on a blue background.
Swift can now be used to make Android apps

Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010. It’s a programming language that was aimed at developing iPhone apps, but in 2015, Apple made it open source.

Since then, it has been becoming particularly popular because it is a lightweight and fast language. It also compiles data much quicker than Objective-C, the language developers used before.

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