Swift is not likely to replace Kotlin or Java on Android in the near future, but some developers may find it useful for cross-platform projects.

Apple introduced a brand new programming language last year that’s meant to make coding an app for iOS or OS X easy to do, and today that language is taking a major step: it’s going open ...

"Moreover, we will start a technical article series on Fusion and Swift foundation to make people realize that identical Swift mobile app code can be used to build for Android and iOS." While the ...

Everyone Can Code will begin by teaching kids how to code in Swift, Apple's own programming language. It'll use the Swift Playgrounds iOS app and Apple CEO Tim Cook said that it will benefit the ...

Swift code can co-exist in a project with Objective-C code, a move that clearly was meant to help spur adoption. Registered Apple developers can download Xcode beta 6 to receive the Swift language ...

Swift is a powerful new programming language for iOS and OS X® that makes it easier than ever for developers to create incredible apps. Designed for Cocoa® and Cocoa Touch®, Swift combines the ...

Apple showed off a couple of cases where implementing the same algorithm in Swift provided a speedup of about 1.3X compared to the same code implemented in Objective C.

With plans to slowly retire the long-used Objective-C, Apple has introduced a new programming language, called Swift, for designing apps and applications to run on Apple iOS devices and Apple ...

Swift could run on Windows and Android in the future, too. Apple probably won’t port it to other platforms itself, but other developers could now take that open-source code and do the work.