Now after reading the title I know what ure thinking 'this guy is a dumbasss' but i recently found a peice of developing software called unity and with this dev tool you can create apps in a certain code from what I understand and switch between platforms such as ios android xbox ps3 and windows mac linux from what i understand! of course when you switch youll have to change the aspect ratio and watnot.
I used to be an iphone user before i got my xperia play and i have quite a few beloved gaming apps. If i was to turn the ipa into .zip which i have done and unzipped all its contents and i then copied the contents to unity and switched platforms like i mentioned before how much work would that involved to get a simple game from ios to android. i suppose this is a question I should post on the unity site but I thought id post here first because there are many developers on xda who might have used unity software before unlike myself.
It doesn't work that way... you write the app with Unity, you can't just take someones binary blob and "convert" it with something like Unity. You would use Unity to write your own software. From scratch.
Trying to keep this as non technical as I can but basically the answer is no, it won't work. Sorry.
Could there be an iphone emulator created? Or is that not possible?
maddog00 said:
Could there be an iphone emulator created? Or is that not possible?
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Not possible iOS is not open source otherwise developers would be pounding out iOS ports to multiple devices. Unfortuantly there is no way to even possibly emulate it at this moment. Maybe in the future they will make it open source. whoo knows
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Could there be an iphone emulator created? Or is that not possible?
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Not possible. Not for at least another 10 years maybe.
This is the best chance you have of an iOS emulator: iEmu (ignore the cancelled status)
Keep an eye on the dev's Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/cmwdotme or the project homepage: http://www.iemu.org/index.php/Main_Page
The only fully functional iOS emulator that exists is apples own closed source emulator for the Mac, Its only really for app development though.
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The only fully functional iOS emulator that exists is apples own closed source emulator for the Mac, Its only really for app development though.
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Hence why iEmu is the best chance to get iOS on Android at the moment. Although it's based on QEMU, which is a full system emulator (hardware etc) so speed would be an issue. It's also still in very early development status
I don't understand why people are asking for ****ty UI ..................you guess right
zaryab said:
I don't understand why people are asking for ****ty UI ..................you guess right
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They dont want the iOS interface they want the ability to use iOS apps on android. You cant deny that iOS has alot more quality apps and games than android does.
However getting an iOS emulator on android is something which we will probably never see ever.
Reapman said:
It doesn't work that way... you write the app with Unity, you can't just take someones binary blob and "convert" it with something like Unity. You would use Unity to write your own software. From scratch.
Trying to keep this as non technical as I can but basically the answer is no, it won't work. Sorry.
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so what is in the app is a compiled version of the sofware which someone wrote which you cannot uncompile to switch platforms and then recompile is what i think your saying correct?
With the way apple acts they would probably throw a lawsuit at you for making that port. Ha ha ha!
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I'm sure this has been discussed before, but haven't seen it as a topic. The Playbook can run Android apps for the most part, so why can't WebOS do the same? I'm no developer, but it just seems like the capability is there.
I'd love to use WebOS again, especially if I can run some sort of apk emulator in the background with Preware as the backend so that Android apps can be run with the cards feature.
Wishful thinking I suppose, but that would be awesome...
"A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
Is anyone working on this. It would be cool to play games that are only on IOS on android. It would then probably get the devs to quit favoring IOS.:victory:
Dream come true, eh? It's impossible. You'd rather see ios android port than ios emulator. Try to find ios custom rom. (don't, there is none, maybe some UI changes or some small mods, but nothing major)
iOS is a closed source OS and it's really hard to modify it. thus - forget about it.
Hello, im new in app development. How to make sure that someone doesnt copy my Android app to iOS? I would like to upload my app on Google play store, but im afraid of that someone will see it and will make same for iOS. I will upload it in future Also in iOS, but for now i must be sure that nobody will steal in. Sorry for my english.
Thibor5893 said:
Hello, im new in app development. How to make sure that someone doesnt copy my Android app to iOS? I would like to upload my app on Google play store, but im afraid of that someone will see it and will make same for iOS. I will upload it in future Also in iOS, but for now i must be sure that nobody will steal in. Sorry for my english.
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My POV:
For iOS devices several Android emulators exist, hence noone must steal an Android app, but simply run it on such an emulator
Probably nobody is crazy enough to rewrite an Android app for running on iOS powered devices. Notice that Android apps are programmed in Java, iOS apps typically are programmed in Swift ( Apple's recommendation ) .
The weMessage application allows you to use iMessage on Android through a proxy server running on a Mac.
Is there a program with the same concept but for Facetime?
If there isn't, is it possible? I might consider trying to make it, though I don't want to if something already exists.
I love my android, and couldn't bare using an IOS device. Though I need to use Facetime.
No, I am not looking for Facetime alternatives.