[bestouff]

I always found non-native apps too out-of-place. Please use Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android.

[mattl]

Swift is just a programming language, I thought?

[v5v3]

Yes.

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.

[mhast]

Kotlin multiplatform has been around for some time if you want that. But I guess it makes sense to be able to approach it from the other end as well if you're mainly an iOS shop.

[v5v3]

It's the only approach that can be taken, as Android being open source can make Swift a first class supported language. Apple will be apple.

[mattl]

Yeah Swift isn’t SwiftUI.

[bestouff]

That's theoretically right, but all concrete examples I've seen so far use some generic UI framework that don't work well.

[mattl]

Why would it be any different to C or C++?

[bestouff]

I guess it's not.