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Re:Expanding Swift's IDE Support by tadfisher on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:34PM (#47696575)
This is not an expectation, no. Libraries are managed via Gradle or whatever build system you use. Android-specific host tools are Gradle-managed, installed via the sdkmanager tool, or managed via other means; I maintain a repository to install them via Nix [0], and many Linux distributions package them. The Android Studio IDE is not required, and doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup.

[0]: https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs

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