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What is the most efficient way to port an iPhone app to Android? I know Apple doesn't like 3rd-party, non-Objective C platforms generating code for their platform ... but is there something out there that can take an iPhone app and convert it to Android friendly code?
If not, how have folks out there been creating Android versions of their existing iPhone apps?
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Apps. The bad news: Any apps you've installed on your iPhone won't automatically transfer over to Android, and any apps you've paid for on iOS will likely have to be purchased again. The good news: These days, most major productivity apps are readily available on both platforms.
You can't convert an Android app to an iOS app in one click. For this purpose, you need to develop the second app separately or initially write both of them using the cross-platform framework. This will take less time and effort than building an application from scratch.
Move to iOS could not communicate with deviceMake sure that cellular data is turned off on Android device. Also, unselect “Smart network switch” or “Connections Optimizer” on your Android phone; If the steps above didn't help and you want to try an alternative way to transfer your data, proceed to the next section.
While you set up your new iOS device, look for the Apps & Data screen. Then tap Move Data from Android. (If you already finished setup, you need to erase your iOS device and start over. If you don't want to erase, just transfer your content manually.)
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.
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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
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Apportable provides a platform to build and deploy existing Objective C apps to Android.
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