wraggster
May 14th, 2014, 21:55
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/222159a382e9569758285134d34733d7/200114633/iphone-5-and-galaxy-s5.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/14/ios-apps-run-on-android/)
Running apps from one mobile platform on another is theoretically great for boosting your app selection, but it's not a trivial task -- even BlackBerry's Android support (http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/05/jelly-bean-update-blackberry-10-android-runtime/) is rough. However, some Columbia University students have managed the daunting feat of running iOS apps on Android with their Cider (http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cider/) compatibility layer. This isn't a regular emulator or virtual machine (http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/vmware-fusion-6/), like you might expect. Instead, it simply tricks apps into believing that they're in a native environment: they adapt code on the fly to make it work with Android's kernel and programming libraries. Even 3D benchmarks run properly.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/14/ios-apps-run-on-android/
Running apps from one mobile platform on another is theoretically great for boosting your app selection, but it's not a trivial task -- even BlackBerry's Android support (http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/05/jelly-bean-update-blackberry-10-android-runtime/) is rough. However, some Columbia University students have managed the daunting feat of running iOS apps on Android with their Cider (http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cider/) compatibility layer. This isn't a regular emulator or virtual machine (http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/vmware-fusion-6/), like you might expect. Instead, it simply tricks apps into believing that they're in a native environment: they adapt code on the fly to make it work with Android's kernel and programming libraries. Even 3D benchmarks run properly.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/14/ios-apps-run-on-android/