The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android. The SDK enables Android apps to be built in ...

TL;DR: Apple's Swift 6.3 update introduces an Android SDK, allowing developers to build or integrate Swift code into Android apps alongside Kotlin and Java. This cross-platform capability enables faster, more synchronized app updates for both iOS and ...

Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements. Image: Google Google will soon require all Android app developers to verify their identities, even if they do not list their apps on its ...

Google announced this week that it will add a new requirement for those who make Android apps and want them to work on Android devices that run Google services. The developers behind Android apps will soon run through a developer verification program if ...

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Google packed this year’s Android developer announcements with enough AI tooling, adaptive UI updates, and cross-device ambitions to make a laptop fan spin just from reading the changelog. During Google I/O 2026, the company outlined 17 major updates ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010. It's a programming language that was aimed at ...