The only option is to use iPhone Dev Team ‘Pwn’ SDK to make a background-runnable iPhone app.
It is times like these that I truly appreciate the power of Android. On Apr 19, 3:59 pm, "Michael DeJadon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see some people are thinking about porting their app over to the iPhone. > Does anyone know if the iPhone will let you run a background service process > in their OS? I heard that they were being very restrictive about this. > > Mike DeJadon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Moffett > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: David Moffett > Subject: [android-challenge] Re: Time For Plan B? > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
