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I remember being in an IRC regularly 10-12 years ago where there was a community that was semi-active about a project to port android to the iPhone created by

I remember being in an IRC regularly 10-12 years ago where there was a community that was semi-active about a project to port android to the iPhone created by David Wang (planetbeing). There were a few builds going around at the time which I tried out. This video had gone somewhat viral at the time which is what sparked my interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJj0kHQgC9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJj0kHQgC9w. It seems like that project eventually became "Project Sandcastle" and the whole topic has seen some kind of recent resurgence from the looks of it.

fathyb 4y ago
I remember flexing my iPhone 3G dual-booting iOS and Android back in high-school. The project was named iDroid: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IDroid https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IDroid It taught me to create custom ramdisks and kernels for iDevices, which eventually landed me my first job as a digital forensics SWE.
- fareesh 4y ago
  yep that's the one
extrememacaroni 4y ago
wow that brings back memories. back then android was truly hideous compared to iOS, unless aided by 3rd party launchers.
- fareesh 4y ago
  It was ugly for the longest time but ahead on several features. I remember the iPhone not having copy and paste for what felt like ages. A lot of the good stuff was on Cydia.
  - WhyNotHugo 4y ago
    Odd how the tables have turned. Copy-paste is ubiquitous on iOS nowadays, but pretty absent on Android. On Android, I haven't come across a single application that supports copying an image. It's infuriating. Flutter doesn't even support pasting images at all (so things like messaging apps can't support pasting images). I get an impression that Google/Android want copy-paste to disappear. My favourite conspiracy theory on this is that it's so people will have to use the "share" sheet, which shares links with tracking/analytics (rather than pasting a raw image which cannot be tracked).
soared 4y ago
Around the same time there were projects to put Nintendo (game boy?) games on ipods as well.
- solarkraft 4y ago
  Do you mean emulators? That's how I played Tetris on my iPod Touch.
- zeckalpha 4y ago
  And Linux on Game Boys!
- reaperducer 4y ago
  I suspect you're being downvoted because there are people who are too young/don't remember that there were a number of games available for the iPod from big gaming companies. Yes, the clickwheel iPod. The 17-year-old iPod Video cranking out tunes on my desk right now has a really good version of Tetris on it, and one of the best ports of Ms. Pac-Man ever. Once you get used to navigating the maze with the wheel, it's a great game.
steeve 4y ago
David Wang is actually the cofounder of Corellium !
captainkrtek 4y ago
Have similar memories on IRC rooting Android devices, lots of fun times and great memories
zekrioca 4y ago
In the video he browses to an old website (http://galiaxy.net/ http://galiaxy.net/), and it displays a design website from Alisa. Is "Alisa" the same as Alyssa Rosenzweig from Asahi? That would be an interesting coincidence :)

fathyb 4y ago

I remember flexing my iPhone 3G dual-booting iOS and Android back in high-school. The project was named iDroid: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IDroid https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IDroid It taught me to create custom ramdisks and kernels for iDevices, which eventually landed me my first job as a digital forensics SWE.

fareesh 4y ago
yep that's the one

extrememacaroni 4y ago

wow that brings back memories. back then android was truly hideous compared to iOS, unless aided by 3rd party launchers.

fareesh 4y ago
It was ugly for the longest time but ahead on several features. I remember the iPhone not having copy and paste for what felt like ages. A lot of the good stuff was on Cydia.
- WhyNotHugo 4y ago
  Odd how the tables have turned. Copy-paste is ubiquitous on iOS nowadays, but pretty absent on Android. On Android, I haven't come across a single application that supports copying an image. It's infuriating. Flutter doesn't even support pasting images at all (so things like messaging apps can't support pasting images). I get an impression that Google/Android want copy-paste to disappear. My favourite conspiracy theory on this is that it's so people will have to use the "share" sheet, which shares links with tracking/analytics (rather than pasting a raw image which cannot be tracked).

soared 4y ago

Around the same time there were projects to put Nintendo (game boy?) games on ipods as well.

solarkraft 4y ago
Do you mean emulators? That's how I played Tetris on my iPod Touch.
zeckalpha 4y ago
And Linux on Game Boys!
reaperducer 4y ago
I suspect you're being downvoted because there are people who are too young/don't remember that there were a number of games available for the iPod from big gaming companies. Yes, the clickwheel iPod. The 17-year-old iPod Video cranking out tunes on my desk right now has a really good version of Tetris on it, and one of the best ports of Ms. Pac-Man ever. Once you get used to navigating the maze with the wheel, it's a great game.

steeve 4y ago

David Wang is actually the cofounder of Corellium !

captainkrtek 4y ago

Have similar memories on IRC rooting Android devices, lots of fun times and great memories

zekrioca 4y ago

In the video he browses to an old website (http://galiaxy.net/ http://galiaxy.net/), and it displays a design website from Alisa. Is "Alisa" the same as Alyssa Rosenzweig from Asahi? That would be an interesting coincidence :)