Viability for x-platform with Swift

[mh (marc hoffman)]

@mamcx

I can use/call thirdy-party libraries just fine (coocapods, nugets, whatever-use-android)?

of course. (specific TO each platform, of course)

@mamcx

I can do the bulk of coding in xcode and “just” compile with fire for windows/android?

probably not, no.

@mamcx

For android, is possible to use xamarin apis?

You can use our Swift compiler for .NET, with Xamarin. If you use our Swift compiler for Java, you can only use Java APIs, not .NET ones (which is what Xamarin is)

@mamcx

How is the stability of silver backend? Is something I could rely on or is still worked on?

Silver is the front-end, not the back-end, ftr. it’s “just” the language parser. the backend is shared with all Elements languages and as solid as our support for each respective platform is old (eg ~10 years for Java, ~14 years for .NET, etc). Of course it is constantly being worked on and improved, on all levels.

@mamcx

Is possible to do code on silver and reusing it on native swift/.net/java?

Not sure what you’re asking, but yeah thats exactly what Silver does.

@mamcx

Any hints or gotchas in doing some project like this?

I had a few blog posts about cross platform strategies, a couple months back, I suggest checking those out.

@mamcx

Can fire allow to put a font size directly? “Ginormous” Is too small for my 32" 4k monitor

yeah, you can manually override this with any number, in the settings plist — but, I have a hard time believing Ginormous really is too small, unless there’s a bug. whats your DPI (or how far are you away from your screen)? are you NOT running in Retina mode (but then, all the rest of macOS would be even less readable).