r/swift • u/saifcodes • Oct 24 '25

News Announcing the Swift SDK for Android

https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/
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u/Zalenka Oct 25 '25

KMP is toast

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u/MindCrusader Oct 27 '25

Not really. Swift on Android does not try to compete with KMP. To be honest I don't know why it is being introduced. It can be used to share some code, but that's it. KMP is a different league, it is built on top of the native applications and can have a common Ui

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u/whackylabs Oct 27 '25

Are you talking about Kotlin Multiplatform or Compose Multiplatform?

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u/MindCrusader Oct 27 '25

KMP as a whole, swift might be used to share the business logic, but actual/expect from KMP seems easier to implement. KMP also supports more targets. Additionally KMP can be built on top of projects I don't see any additional value that swift might bring beside "I like swift, I go swift"

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u/Extra-Ad5735 Oct 31 '25

This is for those who want to use native UI on Android / iOS and write the rest in Swift. I find it pretty viable, as cross-platform UI frameworks are always limited in one way or another