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Happy Halloween! \ud83c\udf83<\/p>\n

The first time I ever wrote about Swift running on Android was back in Issue 220<\/a> when I linked to Romain Goyet\u2019s post<\/a>. What he demonstrated was primitive, and even printing \u201cHello World\u201d was beyond what was achievable at that time. He did manage to get a simple function call working, though, which was something! Romain published his post almost exactly ten years ago, and to give that context, Swift wasn\u2019t even open source at the time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been quite the journey from that experiment to where we are now, and last Friday, Joannis Orlandos<\/a>, on behalf of the Android Workgroup<\/a>, announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android<\/a> on the official Swift language blog.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be fair to attribute this major step towards Android becoming an officially supported Swift platform entirely to the formation of the Android Workgroup, but it\u2019s hard not to see some influence from it. Years of thankless effort have gone into Swift on Android and related projects<\/a>, but things have certainly accelerated in terms of official adoption in recent months. It\u2019s worth reading Marc Prud\u2019hommeaux<\/a>\u2019s \u201cafterword<\/a>\u201d on the Skip.tools<\/a> site for a great list of people who deserve credit.<\/p>\n

The workgroup started with the formation of what was originally called a \u201cCommunity Workgroup\u201d<\/a>, which then developed into a \u201cfull\u201d workgroup<\/a>, and in my opinion, it\u2019s a testament to how well the Swift open source project is working. Yes, Apple regularly announces new workgroups<\/a>, but it\u2019s fantastic to see that the community can also initiate this process for projects that are significant.<\/p>\n

In terms of getting started with the nightly build of Swift on Android, there are some good next steps in the announcement<\/a>, including a Getting Started guide<\/a> and a repository full of example code<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before I sign off, I also want to mention the continuing efforts around Swift on Wasm, and I am grateful to Max Desiatov<\/a> for taking the time to write up how the project has progressed during the past two months<\/a>. It\u2019s really great to see Swift on both platforms progress so \u2026 swiftly. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n

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Enhancements to help you submit and market your apps and games<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple may have already announced this:<\/p>\n

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\u2026 but if they did, then I wasn\u2019t aware of it. It seems reasonable, but it\u2019s something you\u2019ll want to be aware of.<\/p>\n

swift-commit-gen<\/a><\/p>\n

Is your repository commit history full of \u201cWIP\u201d, \u201cFixed it\u201d, \u201cNo, really, I fixed it this time\u201d messages? To help solve that problem, Hesham Salman<\/a> created this fun tool that uses Apple\u2019s foundation models to summarise changes and give you better commit messages. It won\u2019t be as good as describing why<\/em> you made the change, but it will be better than \u201cFixed it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Code<\/h2>\n

spmgraph<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an interesting new package\/tool from Felipe Marino<\/a>. It can visualise, test, and lint your package\u2019s dependencies. Linting is especially interesting, as you can define your own rules. It\u2019s perfect for making sure your dependencies don\u2019t get out of control.<\/p>\n\n

Cultivated Task Cancellation<\/a><\/p>\n

Max Seelemann<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apropos dirty hands\u2026 we\u2019re 1,500 words into task cancellation and not done yet. I have two more posts coming up on the dirtier part\u2014cancellation handlers and what I call the cancellation trap.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This post starts a well-written three-part series (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, and 3<\/a>) on task cancellation. \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n

Videos<\/h2>\n

Videos from Swift Connection 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a group of people gathered in Paris to be educated and entertained at Swift Connection 2025<\/a>. If you didn\u2019t manage to make it to the conference, this set of videos from the event is the next best thing.<\/p>\n

Jobs<\/h2>\n

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And finally…<\/h2>\n

Which Craig are you dressing up as tonight?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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