Monday, April 11, 2016

Google could adopt Apple's Swift language for Android Develoment

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In 2014, the enterprise announced Swift - a programing language that reached global coders as open-source at the end of last year. According to 9to5mac unconfirmed rumors claim that Google itself considers adopting Swift as a "first class" language for its Android platform.

Java is currently the only first-class programming language used on Android, and insiders familiar with the matter say that Java will not be replaced by Swift. However, Google is looking for alternative premium programming languages as its litigation with Oracle over the permitted Java uses drags on.

Swift already got commended for its lighting fast speed, and the fact that it is open source means that Google has free reign to use it how it sees fit. One additional advantage of using Swift could be that quite a few apps could reach Google's ecosystem first. At the moment, Apple tends to launch apps faster due to the quickness of programming in Swift.

At the end of 2015, a reported meeting between representatives of Uber, Facebook and Google took place in London. The three companies discussed the ways in which Swift could benefit them, with Uber and Facebook considering the possibility to make the open source programming language "more central to operations."

Another modification that Google would have to make is rewriting its standard library in Swift to make sure that the language gets support in both SDKs and APIs. The problems could arise in low-level Android APIs, which are based on C++. Swift cannot be currently bridged to the general-purpose programming language.



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