It would seem that language translation would only be part of it since Apple api is so much different from Android. Porting the GUI will be easy with Interface Builder. We are putting our application on both platforms but not translating but basically different development efforts. After playing with iPhone api though I really missed Android. A lot of my old NeXT friends seem to think iPhone api was pushed out to early and they are hiding a lot of the good stuff, see the record and playback of audio api. Seems straight forward in Android but very involved on the iPhone.
Be careful Objective C is addictive and much more powerful than Java because of runtime binding. Java has some semblance of runtime binding but is much more restrictive. Of course there are gives and takes with loose runtime binding like Objective C but it comes in real handy at times. Apple kind of butchered the api from the NeXT days imho and in fact no computer system has really done much beyond what NeXT did in the 90s. Ahhh wait there is one thing most companies did that NeXT did not. Sell computers. :-) BTW I guess some may not know that OSX is just the latest incarnation of NeXTStep. David On Apr 19, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Incognito wrote: > > Well, I began to study Objective-c and it is very similar to Java, not > in sintax, but rather in how they have a lot of the same elements that > Java does, classes, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism. I searched > for an automated tool to convert Java to Objective C and found one > company "http://www.innaworks.com/alcheMo-for-iPhone.html"; that does > this, more specifically it converts J2ME to Objective-C for IPhone. > They do not have a download at ther website, you must contact them to > get it or buy it. This is usually a signal that it costs a lot of > moeny. To tell you the truth I find them a bit sketchy. Right now I'm > coming up with a strategy to convert all my java code to Objective-C > code without the need of such utility. That is as far as I've gotten. > > > On Apr 19, 4:36 am, hitsu_g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Incognito, >> Please let us know how the iPhone port goes! I have been curious >> about >> how difficult it would be and planned on giving it a go, but am >> currently sticking with developing for Android (after I have wallowed >> in a little bit more ADC-recovery laziness). >> >> On Apr 19, 3:05 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> My Plan A-Z is to work on mobile applications that users love it >>> and are >>> happy to even pay for it at the end of the day. >> >>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >> >>>> So, 1788 submissions in total (Shie*t!). Even if 788 are repeats >>>> 1000 >>>> is still a pretty high number. Competition is really hot. Given >>>> that >>>> my applications do not have the prettiest interface (does not >>>> make you >>>> go wow!) nor are they social networking applications, I believe my >>>> actual chances of winning are very slim. I do believe though that >>>> my >>>> apps have a lot of value to offer (not of the myspace or youtube >>>> type >>>> value but more of the academic value) at least for a niche in the >>>> overall market. I still believe that I can make money selling my >>>> apps >>>> (a couple of thousand dollars a year for each). >> >>>> Since I still want to become rich (don't we all!?) I think is >>>> time to >>>> implement Plan B, don't you think? Well, I just bought a new >>>> macbook >>>> for $1300 US dollars (I went broke because of that purchase) and >>>> will >>>> start porting my applications over to the IPhone. Hopefully I can >>>> finish the port in time before the store opening in June. Well >>>> that is >>>> my plan B toward the path to richness. What is your plan B if you >>>> do >>>> not win? >> >>>> As a last note, Plan C is that I will develop a game and social app >>>> for challenge II, already have some ideas and code started. >> >>> -- >>> take care, >>> Muthu Ramadoss. >> >>> http://mobeegal.in >>> find stuff closer.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
