Apple’s Swift language, initially intended for iOS and OS X applications, will become available for Android development as part of Apple’s decision to open-source Swift. But developers can start using ...

Apple has made the build system in its high-level programming language Swift — used by llbuild, the Swift Package Manager and Swift Playground — officially open source. Apple formally contributed the ...

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Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.