> On Oct 9, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In Swift 3.0 you can build Android apps in Linux but only console apps as
> there is no framework to build GUI apps using JNI.
> What I propose is to build an initial limited framework coded in C that calls
> enough of the Java Android API via JNI to bootstrap the android app and to
> create widgets and layouts.A default Androidmanifest.xml file and some files
> needed to be generated to make a valid android app.
> The Android API java surface is vast, so this framework needs to be build
> over many releases to be useful. Developing a graphical Android app requires
> interaction with "Activities" and the package manager and some widgets like
> Button and some layouts like "RelativeLayout" and "LinearLayout".
> The result will be the ability to develop GUI Android apps on Linux using
> Swift 3.0
> Further support for additional APIs will be provided once the basics are
> solid..
> Who am I: Senior Android mobile developer with more than six years experience
> on Android.
> Am I able to build Swift 3.0 on Linux: Yes
The swift-evolution process is primarily focused on the Swift language and
standard library. Large-scale API development, which binding to/creating a GUI
library entails, is out-of-scope for this process and should occur in a
different forum.
Cheers,
Doug
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