Enterprise Java, Microsoft, and Apple developers dealt with shifts in strategy, delays, platform pressure, and backward-compatibility issues in 2016 that foretell an important year ahead, for ...

With Silver, Swift developers can share their business logic and non-interface code across the different platforms. Silver won't, however, permit full cross-platform apps to be developed.

See Apache Cordova, HTML5, JavaScript, Swift, Java and hybrid app. Hybrid vs. Native From a programmer's point of view, the hybrid app is much easier to write and maintain.

Google might adopt Swift as a first-class programming language for Android, but the transition would not come without effort. Some of the mobile OS’ APIs and SDKs have to be rewritten for Swift, and ...