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I wonder what happened to the rumors that Google was planning on supporting Swift on Android officially [0].

Also, are there any good tutorials/courses to get started with Swift & iOS development? (having programmed in other languages, I can pick up fast, and I've lost interest in tutorials that start out very slowly and take time to get to the point.)

[0] http://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-swi...

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It's in the works but it's no t officially supported by Google. https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/pull/162

I guess it would make more sense to support Kotlin officially, but then again it already works fine on Android.

As far as I understand Kotlin is reliant on Java Standard Library and is dependent on Java infrastructure(maven, jvm, xml and friends), which makes no sense for me as an iOS developer and can only benefit Java developers as it was mentioned earlier.

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