Release v24.8.20 | Android Support · wabiverse/swift-usd

^{Experimental Android Support, and Safer Swift OpenUSD API.}

Experimental Android support - build OpenUSD apps for Android:

SWIFTUSD_ANDROID_SUPPORT_ENABLED=1 swift bundler run --simulator "Pixel_10_Pro" -c release UsdView

Adopts parts of the apple/SwiftUsd overlay for a safer Swift OpenUSD API - client code should now hold UsdStage directly instead of UsdStageRefPtr; dereferencing and lifetime management are handled internally.
Extends the apple/SwiftUsd overlay to fix Swift/C++ interop bugs around std::string ↔ String conversions and ambiguous Xformable operation overloads that previously caused Swift compiler crashes on Linux.

To use this release of Pixar's USD in your swift project, add the following to the dependencies section in your Package.swift file:

// swift-tools-version: 6.0

dependencies: [
  .package(url: "https://github.com/wabiverse/SwiftUSD.git", from: "24.8.20")
]

For Linux, these are the only dependencies required, as MetaverseKit provides everything else.

Tip

If you are on a distro like Ubuntu there is a good chance you already have most of these installed.