[android-developers] Re: any experience in time to port ios app to android

2011-06-04 Thread Droid
I suggest asking the iPhone developer to write the app out in pseudo code and then asking an android dev to write a similar android app. There is no software that one can simply use to translate from iPhone to abdroid. If the app is a web app phone gap then you have a chance, but straight

[android-developers] Re: any experience in time to port ios app to android

2011-06-04 Thread keyboardr
It very heavily depends on the kind of app. I'm nearing the end of a project porting a 2d game over and it's been rough. It took me a week and a half translating line by line several thousand lines before I had something I could even attempt to run. That's because none of it was using the

[android-developers] Re: any experience in time to port ios app to android

2011-06-04 Thread cellurl
Thanks everyone. What 3rd party tools might help me? The app is just a biz app showing XML feeds mostly. -cellurl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To

[android-developers] Re: any experience in time to port ios app to android

2011-06-03 Thread DanH
This is done some in our shop (not by me personally), but I don't think that there are any formulae one can use. Basically, it's a rewrite, of course. The logic at the very least must be transliterated from Objective C to Java. Thankfully there is a lot of similarity between the two (though it

[android-developers] Re: any experience in time to port ios app to android

2011-06-03 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Besides the GFX, I very seriously doubt you can reuse anything. On Jun 4, 10:31 am, cellurl gpscru...@gmail.com wrote: I have to port an app from ios to android. It contains email, pictures, xml... Anyone want to share any experiences. I want to ask the client how long it took him to write