Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

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Post by dnt404-1 » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android
engineering.columbia.edu

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

#2

Post by _mayo » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:37 PM UTC

This is pretty cool. There's a demo of it running on a Nexus 7[0]. -- [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

#3

Post by danabramov » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

_mayo wrote: post #2

This is pretty cool. There's a demo of it running on a Nexus 7[0]. -- [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg

“I have started a job with Apple, and will not be continuing work on this project.”

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

#4

Post by delinka » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

"...we reused existing iOS frameworks and libraries in our approach..."

Ah. Awesome work, but not commercially viable. :(

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

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Post by pavlov » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:43 PM UTC

... we reused existing iOS frameworks and libraries in our approach, avoiding the difficult and complex reimplementation effort of Wine.

Cool, but it's against Apple's EULA to run the iOS binaries on non-Apple hardware, so unfortunately this project suffers from the same problem as emulators that require you to acquire the original firmware somehow.

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

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Post by dljsjr » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:59 PM UTC

For a minute I thought this was announcing that Cider[1] now supports iOS -> Android (Cider is currently existing tech used for porting Windows games to OS X, based on Cedega/Wine).

[1]: https://www.transgaming.com/cider

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

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Post by higherpurpose » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:59 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #5

... we reused existing iOS frameworks and libraries in our approach, avoiding the difficult and complex reimplementation effort of Wine. Cool, but it's against Apple's EULA to run the iOS binaries on non-Apple hardware, so unfortunately this project suffers from the same problem as emulators that require you to acquire the original firmware somehow.

I thought the EULA doesn't count for much, especially in Europe?

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

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Post by zbowling » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

> "a new system that can run iOS apps on an Android device for the first time"

We at Apportable (YC W2011) have been doing that for 3 + years in a much for commercially viable way. We strive for source compatibility and are not building an emulator that requires taking libraries from an iOS device.

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

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Post by aye » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 4:10 PM UTC

zbowling wrote: post #8

> "a new system that can run iOS apps on an Android device for the first time" We at Apportable (YC W2011) have been doing that for 3 + years in a much for commercially viable way. We strive for source compatibility and are not building an emulator that requires taking libraries from an iOS device.

Oh, boy. I was seriously addicted to EyeLord for a little while. If I want to build an Obj-C app for Android, is https://github.com/apportable/NDKSignalTest a good place to start?

Re: Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

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Post by houli » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 4:14 PM UTC

higherpurpose wrote: post #7

pavlov wrote: post #5

... we reused existing iOS frameworks and libraries in our approach, avoiding the difficult and complex reimplementation effort of Wine. Cool, but it's against Apple's EULA to run the iOS binaries on non-Apple hardware, so unfortunately this project suffers from the same problem as emulators that require you to acquire the original firmware somehow.

I thought the EULA doesn't count for much, especially in Europe?

You'd still have to get the binaries yourself from a device as Apple still own the copyright.