Alien Dalvik 2.0 brings Android apps to iOS

5. Kjayhawk posted on 06 Oct 2011, 12:27 0 0

I can see why you say this but having the capability to transfer android apps to iOS is huge for Android.

Why would someone develop an app for iOS which only reaches around 4 devices. When they can now easily develop for Android and easily port there app to iOS. This is good for android, brings more developers to android.

8. remixfa posted on 06 Oct 2011, 13:20 0 0

kjayhawk. that doesnt make any sense.

developers develop on iOS because they have one version of the app that is compatibile with every iOS device out there (unless its one of the new super graphical apps that needs the i4 or higher). Android apps have to go through a lot of compatibility issues that iOS apps dont. Its a fact of life difference between open platforms vs closed platforms.

I would assume its easier to go from android to iOS because of apple's closed off nature. Getting apple code to run on an android phone is probably much much harder if not impossible because of it not being open source with its drivers. Android is 100% open source so all the info is out there.

10. Kjayhawk posted on 06 Oct 2011, 14:53 0 0

Wait what?

LOL I don't know why I freaking even posted a reply to that guys post!!!

yeah remixfa I know what android is thanks though. Sorry bout that it didn't make any sense my bad.

Wow huge misunderstanding.

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9. KiwiKaKi_2 (unregistered) posted on 06 Oct 2011, 13:58 0 0

can't bring ios apps to droid be cause objective c compiles to machine code. its easy to bring android apps to ios because it runs bytecode in a vm. once this vm can support all the apis in the dalvik vm on android, then the apps should pretty much work perfectly.

6. ledbetterp3 posted on 06 Oct 2011, 12:50 0 0

That is just what I was going to say!

14. bucky posted on 06 Oct 2011, 17:33 0 1

things is, the iphone's software doesnt need soo much to run it efficiently. Yes the new iphone needed a bigger screen but i really cant complain about the internals of the phone.