Swift Builds Android Apps

Swift University Teaches You How to Build Android Apps in Apple's Programming Language

Apple had open sourced its own programming language called 
Swift in December, 2015. Since then, Apple has been making
 efforts to make Swift more popular amongst programmers to 
develop apps for Android. Now, Apple's efforts finally look like
 coming to fruition as an Italy-based university has started 
a first-of-its-kind course to build Android apps using Swift
programming language. However, it's not meant
 for beginners but the programmers who already know Swift,
 Java, C#, Objective-C and other programming languages.

The Italian university, known as Swift University, is offering 
the intermediate level course for Android app development
 written specifically in Apple's Swift language. "By attending
 this course you will learn to program App for Android devices
 via the Android SDK but classic written in Swift language. 
Thanks to this innovative course can easily be ported your iOS
 projects on Android and / or develop multi-platform app 
without using a middleware," reads the course description
 on university's website.

This course will help coders develop Android apps using Swift,
 while presumably reducing the need of a cross-platform
 middleware 
like Xamarin, which comes with limitations. It is built using
 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) instead of 
a converter that will let the coders use Swift instead of Java 
while using the normal classes of Android SDK.

As we mentioned, the course is open to the developers who 
have some knowledge of any of the programming languages 
to object - Swift, Java, C#, and Objective-C. The course, as seen
 on the website, lasts about 3 days 8 hours for a total of 24
 hours of lessons, samples, projects, and private group
 post-course support. It is being offered at a price of EUR 599 
(roughly Rs. 41,000) in Milan, Italy.

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