Thanks engadget Thanks Columbia University students. Thanks cider Running apps from one os or ecosystem to another has been quite hard but its been done from the htc d7 windows ans android,the n900 Nokia. Even with open source its not been the same. We see running apps from one mobile platform on another as a theoretically great thing for boosting your app selection, but its not a trivial task -- even BlackBerrys Android support is rough. However, some Columbia University students have managed the daunting feat of running iOS apps on Android with their Cider compatibility layer. This isnt a regular emulator or virtual machine, like you might expect. Instead, it simply tricks apps into believing that theyre in a native environment: they adapt code on the fly to make it work with Androids kernel and programming libraries. Even 3D benchmarks run properly. Unfortunately, its not quite the Holy Grail of cross-platform compatibility... at least, not yet. As youll see in the (sadly vertical) demo below, most iOS apps run at glacially slow pace. They also dont have access to most hardware features, so GPS tracking and other staple features are right out. This is still better than previous efforts, though, and it raises hopes that platform exclusives wont be as important in choosing a mobile device as they have been in the past. Update: the team tells us that it got GPS working after the paper was published.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:42:32 +0000
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