Introduction Greetings, SCADE Community! In our previous article, we delved into Swift PM libraries within Android Studio projects. Today, we will continue our series on developing Android applications by harnessing the power of Swift PM libraries. As we already know, Android app development has long relied on Java and Kotlin. But…

Introduction Android app development has long been synonymous with Java and Kotlin as primary languages for building robust and versatile applications. However, for developers familiar with Swift, known for its expressiveness and safety, the desire to leverage its strengths in the Android ecosystem can be compelling. Until recently, the challenge of…

Understanding the release cycle This chapter explains our SCADE release cycle — the platform for building cross platform native apps with Swift. SCADE is targeting iOS developers and Android developers using an Apple based technology stack. Our SCADE platform contains the SCADE IDE the Swift Compiler for Android the Swift Foundation for Android the…

With much joy and exciting, we are happy to announce the Beta version of SCADE Version 2.0! Our Version 2.0 was over 1 year in the making, and on the journey of releasing it, we encountered many obstacles, but finally it is here. Main features A brand new, macOS native super fast…

In our quest of empowering us Swift developers to build awesome, limitless, native cross platform Swift apps for Android and iOS, Cross Platform Swift is growing up with our next releases in June, July and August. …

With great pleasure, we see that Swift is continuing to grow and now reached place #10 on the famous Tiobe language index. TIOBE Software BV, the publisher of the index, showed Swift taking 10th place of the October 2018 language ranking index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ It is clearly the number one programming language to develop mobile apps for iOS. Although Swift is now also available for Android (apart from its home platform iOS), it is not used that often for Android development yet

At SCADE, we want to make sure that all your favourite Swift data persistence options are available on both Android and iOS without a need for code changes. This article describes the SQLite.Swift support. SQLite.Swift is an awesome library to make working with the SQLite database even easier. It provides…

So we embarked on our endeavor to provide you with a great cross platform logging framework with a iOS specific touch. The initial design goals for version 1.0 of our logging Api are: Ease of use across all platforms (SCADE simulator, iOS device and simulator, Android device and simulator) The…

At SCADE, we always think about how to make our users more productive. One big milestone we reached with SCADE 0.9.8.1 is SPM support. We are very excited about this. It means that you can easily download, build and link any Swift SPM library into your SCADE project and leverage…