11–13 of 13 posts
This is not a tool to convert Java apps to iOS apps. This is a tool that helps you write business logic in one language so it can be shared without duplication between Android, web (via GWT), and iOS apps. Write your presentation logic with the native tools, ie. Interface Builder, etc. Cross-platform mobile UI support is explicitly avoided. Xcode is great--use it!
Its a joke. It translates Java to Objective-C code without GC support (uses reference counting which you need to annotate). It doesn't define any UI so effectively you need to work on a Mac just without all the wonderful tools for UI building that apple provides and without any of the WORA you get from Java. When something doesn't work you are still stuck debugging in Objective-C. And googling stack overflow trying t…
Isn't GC deprecated in favour of ARC?
Its a joke. It translates Java to Objective-C code without GC support (uses reference counting which you need to annotate). It doesn't define any UI so effectively you need to work on a Mac just without all the wonderful tools for UI building that apple provides and without any of the WORA you get from Java. When something doesn't work you are still stuck debugging in Objective-C. And googling stack overflow trying t…
Well, nearly everything you said about J2ObjC is incorrect. 1. You can use ARC with J2ObjC. Your other comment about it not being supported is incorrect. 2. If you're not using ARC, then no, annotations are not required to get reference counting. The annotations are for "weak references" and are optionally available to avoid cyclic reference problems. They are not used in most cases. 3. You're not stuck without the A…
If you want to share code with Android then you are better off with C. Yes the dalvik native interfaces suck but that is a tried and true way that actually works.
If you want to write in Java then Codename One is pretty much the only usable option.