[thevibesman]

> But the current Android frameworks are written to function with GC, so if Google wants to support Swift or any other non-GC language, they would have write and maintain a second framework along side the old Java one.

While it is likely that this is how it could play out, it is certainly possible to have a garbage collected language and a managed memory language working together in the same program (e.g. a manual memory managed C program can start an internal JVM and pass data between the two languages).