Android SDK Bindings

ColemanCDA · September 15, 2018, 4:16pm

Android SDK Bindings for the Swift programming language.

pgorzelany · September 16, 2018, 12:49pm

Nice! How does it work and what can we use it for? The readme is not very detailed :)

ColemanCDA · September 16, 2018, 5:41pm

@pgorzelany This project allows you to call Android's Java SDK from Swift natively. So you can develop full native Android apps with the platform-specific UI and API (Bluetooth, Camera, NFC, etc) with Swift. We are also working on a UIKit layer that allows for UIKit apps to work with Android's Activity, RecyclerView, etc. This allows you to share code between iOS and Android, but still build UI using the platform's SDK, for a better UX.

pgorzelany · September 17, 2018, 10:01am

Do you have any examples of such applications created using those libraries? Maybe you could point us to some blog posts or articles describing the process?

ColemanCDA · September 17, 2018, 3:29pm

Toolchain:

Apps:

https://github.com/MillerTechnologyPeru/BluetoothExplorer/tree/NewBluetoothExplorer

ColemanCDA · November 9, 2018, 7:45am

Check out this example of usage:

LinusU · December 23, 2018, 7:56pm

This is amazing, will for sure try and get some time to play with this during the holidays.

To just get the absolute bare minimum "Hello, World!" app up and running, which repo would you recommend to look at? jmarkstar/SwiftAndroid-Sample?

Keep up the good work

adtrevor · December 23, 2018, 9:07pm

Thanks for this! I'm really impatient to see support for all platforms in Swift!
How much stable is this right now? Are there any known issues?

ColemanCDA · December 23, 2018, 10:21pm

It's pretty stable, no known issues as of yet.