One of the goals of the recently-announced Android Workgroup is to create an official cross-compilation Swift SDK that can build Swift packages for the various Android architectures. Until now, there have been a variety of Android SDK efforts by different parties, many of whom are now members of the Android Workgroup. We have been working over the past months to unify our efforts with an eye towards publishing a single official SDK to swift.org/install alongside the Swift SDK for WebAssembly and the Static Linux SDK.
We are pleased to announce that our first 6.2 development snapshot SDK release has been published to github.com/swift-android-sdk/swift-android-sdk/releases. That page contains instructions for downloading, installing, and configuring the Android SDK so you can try it out on your own Swift packages. As we progress towards an eventual 6.2 release, the releases page will be updated with new snapshots that will contain bug fixes and other improvements.
If you are new to Swift for Android, or if you have been using one of the other bespoke Android toolchains that are floating around the internet, we encourage you to give this candidate release a try and provide feedback.
As always, you can communicate with the Android Workgroup through these forums. You may also like to join the Swift Open Source Slack #android group for real-time discussions and troubleshooting. And if you are interested in the process by which the SDK is being generated, the pull request can be followed at: Android SDK build scripts by marcprux · Pull Request #467 · swiftlang/swift-docker · GitHub.