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For the Swift Student Challenge I created a ray-tracer which respects general relativity (to the extent of the Schwarzschild solution) and renders blackholes; the fiery disk around the blackhole is in-fact flat! (the bending of light creates the iconic blackhole halo)

Development has been a little bit quiet since v0.2.1 (around 2 weeks ago) because I've been focussing more on Swift Bundler, in particular getting it ready for its v3.0.0 release, and improving Windows support.

SwiftCrossUI v0.3.0 brings a few SwiftUI feature parity improvements, some bug fixes, and perhaps most notably for users, a huge amount of documentation improvements by Kaleb Ascevich. github.com/moreSwift/swif…

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@JoshBashed @ipla03 It’s not possible on main yet, but on both repositories you’ll find corresponding Android support PRs. Swift Bundler supports it quite well, and SwiftCrossUI is a proof of concept so far

@ipla03 Try swift-bundler and SwiftCrossUI made by @stackotter

Testing a bit of Swift on Android because why not

@KyleSwifter Thanks!

@stackotter Amazing work!

I've just released SwiftCrossUI v0.2.0 (two and a half years after v0.1.0), and I'm aiming to begin making regular releases now that I'm focusing on SwiftCrossUI full time. 492 commits, 127 PRs, and 77k changed lines. github.com/moreSwift/swif…

If you'd like to try it out, follow the Swift Android getting started guide, then use the command in the screenshot to build SwiftCrossUI's CounterExample (on the android_support branch); swift.org/documentation/…

This is all in the as-of-yet unmerged Android support PR: github.com/moreSwift/swif…

Swift Bundler can now automatically locate compatible Swift Android SDK + Swift toolchain pairs on the user's behalf. It also supports automatically installing and launching apps on Android devices and emulators.

If you know anyone who might be interested in the project, I'd love if you could share the video with them!

The Ladybird browser project has inspired me to begin making regular SwiftCrossUI development update videos. The first one is up on YouTube now and covers the last two months of SwiftCrossUI development. Let me know what you think! youtu.be/HgRO7eIHkyE

The talk is 10 minutes long, and covers the basics of SwiftCrossUI, Swift Bundler, hot reloading, and Mia’s Swift Data alternative called Amethyst Vein.

One of SwiftCrossUI’s amazing contributors, Mia Koring, recently presented a lightning talk about SwiftCrossUI at the Swift Pre-FOSDEM Community Event. Go check out the recording on YouTube if you missed it! youtu.be/EC9qVCYBVyk?si…

The annoying part was using an oddly structured library for interacting with the GitHub API (which was missing bindings for the Actions part of the GitHub API).

Wrote it in Swift (rather than my usual Python for scripting) with as many libraries as I wanted, and it was relatively enjoyable!

Made a small utility for checking in on PRs on my repos. It solves something that has bothered me for a while, which is that GitHub doesn't display a diff from the latest review to current changes (only which *files* changed since the last review but with diffs against the base).

To finish off basic Android support, I still have to implement Android device/emulator discovery and automatic APK running.

I've been working on Android support for Swift Bundler this past week or so, and it can now bundle SwiftCrossUI applications into Android APKs fully automatically 🎉

@NominalAviator Thanks!

@stackotter Nice! Both are really cool projects

As SwiftCrossUI and Swift Bundler have grown, it’s become clear that they deserve to live under their own org. For that reason, I’ve created the moreSwift org and transferred SwiftCrossUI and Swift from my personal account to the org. github.com/moreSwift

*and Swift Bundler (that’s what I get for copy pasting from Mastodon and deleting words until it’s under the Twitter character limit)