Support in Objective-C or Swift

[wryphonedev]

This tool would be immensely valuable for mobile developers supporting iOS.

[bdferris]

Do you have any preference on library sharing / packaging? Ever used CocoaPods or something similar?

[daviddelmonte]

+1 for objc and Swift. No preference on packaging.

[mikebikemusic]

+1 for Swift implementation that works whether it is embedded in OS X, iOS, apple watch, or tvOS.

[egorich239]

The fastest way to get a language supported is to send a pull request: https://github.com/google/gtfs-realtime-bindings#other-languages ;)

[arahman010]

+1 for swift

[jameslinjl]

I'll have this on my backlog at some point. Notes for the future:

• Objective-C has Google official language support, so that should be good to go: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/objective-c-generated
• It looks like Apple has released their own Swift Protobuf support: https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf. Since this is supported by Apple, I would propose that we consider supporting a language binding here since the plugin will likely have strong, enterprise-level support
• From my brief research, it looks like our best bet would be to publish the language binding packages in both CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager (SPM). SPM is the future, first-party solution, but it will only work for applications and packages that have their entire dependency chain in SPM. CocoaPods seems to be a reasonable "safety net" to ensure all other applications and packages can utilize the language bindings