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There's a few things you can do in Obj-C that would be pretty hard to do in Java, but... It's not the language, it's the framework. UIKit and friends really ar

• stcredzero 17y ago
  That's actually good news. If iPhone SDK is a superset of Android capabilities and all of the glue/compatibility framework has to be on the Android side, then this further insulates users of the translation kit from punitive actions from Apple. (The framework itself needs to be implemented carefully to avoid Apple's ire. Apple itself may want to implement it, as it would put their Obj-C toolset in the position as the original, and other platforms get the copy.)
• kelnos 17y ago
  Take a look at Cappuccino. They claim to have reimplmented the Cocoa APIs in Javascript, arguably a language even more restrictive than Java. Java of course is a bit different language-wise than JS or ObjC, to be sure, but I'd imagine you could support a decent subset of UIKit in Java... though the method call syntax would of course be different.