Port iPhone application to Android [closed]

Answer 1

There really isn't a short cut to porting. The best thing you can do is use a company that specializes in porting, like migration.mobi. The cross-platform frameworks have performance problems and really limit what you're able to do.

Games are a different story altogether, so be ready for different answers if you've been a complex real-time game on iPhone and you want it to work on another platform.

Answer 2

There actually is a tool that does exactly what you're asking called O2J. You can leverage your existing Objective-C codebase and convert it to Java with the O2J conversion tool.

It's a paid app available on the Mac App Store... O2J Objective-C to Java Converter

Most of the time it's preferable to have a native UI and native code for performance, working with the platform UI paradigms and to take advantage of platform specific APIs/services.

Answer 3

Yeah, people don't usually love the answer that we have for this one at Appiction. It seems like it should be easy since they are so similar, but they are completely different operating systems with different ways of being used. Sometimes a company will be able to cut a deal with you since the art has already be developed and the basic wireframes have been conceived. At Appiction we created a video to answer this exact question for our clients: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-fdRw1WNYI

Answer 4

Apportable provides a platform to build and deploy existing Objective C apps to Android.

Answer 5

At android there are 2 categories: the lower one, with g1 and the better with Nexus 1 if you want to develop games. Those cross platform libraries I think they can do cross platform "Hello word" applications. To generate a correct Blackberry networking application or an optimized Android graphic application (to both categories), I highly doubt it!

• the frameworks has the big cons, when you want to look outside of the sandbox. Those 3-4 custom stuff, plugin often cost more, than the whole application written fast until that point.

So, "Hello word" +very basic, only soft stuff with cross platform. High performance, nice graphic, easier to bugfix, support, professional work: develop for each platform and categories.

Answer 6

There's nothing of the sort to port your app. You can use 3rd party tools to create apps that work in both. That's what Titanium and PhoneGap were aiming at. With the new changes to the SDK Agreement, those look like they're not really "legal" or at least violate the agreement.

As for your other question, yes, people do create 2 separate apps. One for Android and one for iPhone. That's the way I currently do it and seems as if Facebook and others do the same.