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Originally Posted by The Register .co .uk
Google has released a tool aimed at making it easier to port software between the two major smartphone platforms, by converting Java code for Android into Objective-C code that can be compiled to run on Apple iOS devices.
"J2ObjC is not a Java emulator," writes Google's Tom Ball in a post announcing the tool, "but instead converts Java classes to Objective-C classes that directly use the iOS Foundation Framework."
The tool doesn't claim to make writing mobile apps a completely cross-platform affair. For one thing, it only handles the back end. Developers who use it to translate their apps will still need to write new UI code in Objective-C using Apple's iOS SDK.
Google has released a tool aimed at making it easier to port software between the two major smartphone platforms, by converting Java code for Android into Objective-C code that can be compiled to run on Apple iOS devices.
"J2ObjC is not a Java emulator," writes Google's Tom Ball in a post announcing the tool, "but instead converts Java classes to Objective-C classes that directly use the iOS Foundation Framework."
The tool doesn't claim to make writing mobile apps a completely cross-platform affair. For one thing, it only handles the back end. Developers who use it to translate their apps will still need to write new UI code in Objective-C using Apple's iOS SDK.
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