Swift on Android: The Future of Cross-Platform Programming?
summary
Claims a working path to run real Apple Swift on Android by compiling Swift into native libraries and calling them from Java via Swift via JNI, documents toolchain choices (NDK, CMake, SDL, IUP) and painful pitfalls like Bionic quirks, C++ stdlib incompatibilities and the libICU name mangling workaround. Shows a 60 FPS Flappy Bird on Raspberry Pi and a single Swift codebase driving native GUI on iOS, Android and desktop using IUP, and ships a helper toolkit as Blurrr SDK (beta) to reproduce the builds.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:55Fundamental concepts
- 8:09Android NDK challenges
- 16:27Handling library dependencies
- 18:57Integrating Swift and JNI
- 25:09Building and cross-platform
- 29:06GUI and native toolkits
- 36:31Blur SDK and conclusions
- 39:34Q&A session
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