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The key word here is "partly" Swift. I would not put it past Apple to use an intermediary framework that hosts a Swift runtime and calls into native Android APIs. That keeps the non-UI logic in one codebase.


That's more or less what they do with iTunes, isn't it? I recall there being an incomplete library packaged with iTunes once upon a time (with stuff like a stub implementation of Grand Central Dispatch that was neither grand nor dispatching).


iTunes (used to, at least) have a lot of Mac OS 9/Carbon stuff partially ported to Windows, in fact.


> stub implementation of Grand Central Dispatch that was neither grand nor dispatching

Thanks for the chuckle, almost r/programminghumor worthy ;-)




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