--- title: Native Swift on Android, Part 1: Setup, Compiling,... description: Skip has released a technology preview of a native Swift toolchain and driver for Android, enabling developers to compile, run, and test Swift code on Android... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/native-swift-on-android-part-1-setup-compiling-running-and-testing-xqboegqht twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Native Swift on Android, Part 1: Setup, Compiling, Running, and Testing | daily.dev og:description: Skip has released a technology preview of a native Swift toolchain and driver for Android, enabling developers to compile, run, and test Swift code on Android... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/native-swift-on-android-part-1-setup-compiling-running-and-testing-xqboegqht og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XqbOegqHt.png og:image:alt: Native Swift on Android, Part 1: Setup, Compiling, Running, and Testing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Native Swift on Android, Part 1: Setup, Compiling, Running, and Testing **[Skip](https://daily.dev/sources/skip-tools)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Skip has released a technology preview of a native Swift toolchain and driver for Android, enabling developers to compile, run, and test Swift code on Android devices or emulators directly from macOS. The setup involves installing a Swift 6.0 Android SDK via Homebrew and using the `skip android` driver to execute Swift executables and XCTest suites on Android. The post walks through creating a Hello World app, running it on both macOS and Android, and running the swift-algorithms test suite on Android. It notes that Android's Linux heritage may cause platform-specific differences compared to Darwin/macOS. Future installments will cover bridging compiled Swift with Java/Kotlin APIs and building full Android apps with SwiftUI via Jetpack Compose. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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