We are excited to announce the creation of the Android Workgroup! The primary goal of the Android workgroup is to establish and maintain Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. To learn more and get involved with the Android Workgroup: Read the Android Workgroup charter Discuss ideas in the Android forum Use the @android-workgroup handle to reach out to the workgroup directly in the forums

The main goal of the Android workgroup is to add and maintain Android as an officially supported platform for the Swift language.

The Android workgroup will:

  • Improve and maintain Android support for the official Swift distribution, eliminating the need for out-of-tree or downstream patches
  • Recommend enhancements to core Swift packages such as Foundation and Dispatch to work better with Android idioms
  • Work with the Platform Steering Group to officially define platform support levels generally, and then work towards achieving official support of a particular level for Android
  • Determine the range of supported Android API levels and architectures for Swift integration
  • Develop continuous integration for the Swift project that includes Android testing in pull request checks.
  • Identify and recommend best practices for bridging between Swift and Android’s Java SDK and packaging Swift libraries with Android apps
  • Develop support for debugging Swift applications on Android
  • Advise and assist with adding support for Android to various community Swift packages