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I wonder if it could be done as a native app. iPhone runs FreeBSD, doesn't it? Java runs on that so you should be able to run Android.
by WildUtah 17y ago
I wonder if it could be done as a native app. iPhone runs FreeBSD, doesn't it? Java runs on that so you should be able to run Android.
- rev087 17y agoiPhone runs iPhone OS, not FreeBSD. And Android is a Linux-based operating system, not a Java application.
- thenduks 17y agoThe iPhone OS is based on Mac OS X which is (Unix, but also) BSD-like. The rest of what you say and it's meaning is correct and unchanged though, of course :)
- crux_ 17y agoWouldn't emulating the Android bytecode inside iPhone OS be the opposite of native? This looks like it boots straight into the actual android linux, so it's about as native as you can get.
- tlrobinson 17y agoJeez, does an honest question like this really deserve -4 votes?
- buster 17y ago-3 +3 now you are even ;)
- num0 17y agosimilarly I thought, maybe they can chop off SpringBoard from a freshly jailbroken iPhone OS and replace it with the VM and its GUI. That'd be a significant saving in coding process.
- gte910h 17y agoHaving actually ported Linux to a new platform...I'd honestly say I can't see live starting from an app actually being easier than booting from a bootloader. Now: Making it so the bootloader can be installed as an app via an open source project and compiling for the developer program, now that's a worthy goal and intermediary step.
- sp332 17y agoYup, Mach was intended to replace the BSD kernel, it + some of 4.3BSD kernel = XNU, which underlies OS X and iPhone OS.