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Since the announcement of [the preview Swift SDK for Android last month](/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/),
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the Android workgroup has seen a lot of questions about how it works and what's next. Please read on for those answers.
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### Swift in the World of Android
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## Swift in the World of Android
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Swift compiles directly to native machine code on Android, the same way it does on other
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platforms. This gives it similar performance to C and C++ code using the Android Native
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please watch its author Mads Odgaard's [Server Side Swift Conference talk from last month](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOH6V1IvTAc).
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You can also check out [his hello-swift example in the Android examples repository](https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-android-examples/tree/main/hello-swift-java).
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### Swift in Android app stores
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## Swift on Android in production
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While Swift on Android may seem new, it's important to recognize that there are
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already millions of Android devices running Swift today. Production apps with
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substantial user bases have been shipping Swift on Android for years, proving
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the viability of this approach:
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Android apps built with Swift have millions of downloads and have been in production
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for many years. Here are some notable examples:
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- [Spark](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.readdle.spark) - A popular email client using Swift to share code between mobile iOS/Android and desktop macOS/Windows versions
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- [flowkey](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flowkey.app) - This interactive piano learning app has been built with Swift on Android since the open-source release
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- [flowkey](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flowkey.app) - An interactive piano learning app built with Swift for Android for almost a decade
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- [MediQuo](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediquo.main) - A healthcare app leveraging Swift for cross-platform development
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- [Naturitas](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.naturitas.android) - An organic products marketplace running Swift in production
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These aren't experimental apps or proofs of concept—they're real businesses serving
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real users at scale. The fact that millions of people unknowingly use Swift-powered
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Android apps daily shows both the stability of Swift on Android and the
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practical benefits it provides to development teams sharing code across platforms.
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### Coming up Next
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Swift on Android [first got started as soon as the language was open-sourced a decade ago](https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20151207/000171.html),

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