Its not legally doable as apple prevents any running of any VM on iphone
including java..





On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:40 AM, mohangupta13 <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Aug 27, 6:36 am, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *technically* possible, but you've got a MOUNTAIN of work to make it
> > happen. Look how long WINE has been at it (16 years) -- and it just
> > *barely* works at all.
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> > On top of it, you have a serious issue with processing power. Though
> > similar in overall "horsepower", the emulation layer will seriously
> > suck you dry. There is nothing you can really do to achieve decent
> > performance levels, especially with graphic-intensive apps.
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> > My third point, which is perhaps the most important, is that the world
> > really doesn't need such a thing. WINE has done a serious disservice
> > to UNIX. What it is, is an excuse that developers use against
> > developing their software for multiple platforms. See, you have all
> > the software developers that build their winjunk and say that if you
> > want to use it on unix/linux, use wine and you're on your own -- no
> > support. Then it either works poorly, or not at all, which (to those
> > users) makes unix/linux LOOK BAD and forcing them back to winjunk. We
> > don't need to have the same thing disturbing Android -- lazy
> > developers will build apple-only and the stuff will *barely* work on
> > Android, making Android *look* bad.
> well as some people mentioned about the closed apis and other things
> and specially apple sueing me (that i want the least)
> so how about the opposite thing ..making an emulator to run android
> apps on iphone..apis are open and i believe no one will sue me for
> that and also *if* its successful it may help android developers with
> a wider market and won't do any disservice to open source .
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> Please let me know your views ... i really need help or any other
> suggestion for a nice project related to mobile operating systems
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> thanks and regards
> Mohan
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> > On Aug 26, 2:54 pm, mohangupta13 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > hello all,
> > > i am very new to android and my query may seem absolutely absurd
> > > but as part of my university project i was thinking about developing
> > > some kind of (wine like) emulator to run iphone apps on android
> > > platform.
> > > so can you please guide me with this, like is there any other similar
> > > project going or what are the resources that i can use or what
> > > technical challenges i may face.
> >
> > > every help is appreciated
> >
> > > thanks
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