Unless I am also mistaken, they are seeking to make a supported language to android development.
Which will save mobile devs having to learn two languages, and also allow reuse of code.
When using Skip Fuse, your Swift code compiles to 100% native Android ARM code.
They've also reimplemented ~60% of SwiftUI on Android, in an open-source library, SkipUI. https://github.com/skiptools/skip-ui SkipUI works way better than you'd think, and anyway, it's totally optional.
You can just write Swift against native Android APIs and it works fine.
Despite the issues, if Swift and SwiftUI were available and compelling for Android then it may help to give Apple greater mindshare of developers.
That’s how Apple fights problems these days - gatekeeping and regulation.
They don’t care though, cross platform apps bring money the same way as any app
4b11b4•7mo ago
(naive question)