Tag: cider

📅 May 14, 2014

Students Get iOS Apps Running on Android [video]

Students get iOS apps running (slowly) on Android

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Back in 2010 and 2011 running Android OS on an iPhone as a dual-boot was the hottest thing. First there was Bootlace, followed by iPhoDroid and iDroid. Planetbeing was the first one to port Android to iOS, and you can watch him discuss his port here, followed by Sergio McFly with iPhoDroid and the team behind iDroid. In October 2011 Myriad announced Alien Dalvik, which was suppose to be some sort of Android emulator-thing for iOS. But the project didn’t really take off. 

Was iOS ported to Android? No, but some Columbia University students managed to get iOS apps running on Android with their Cider compatibility layer. Cider is not an emulator or virtual machine, but it tricks apps into believing that they’re in a native environment: they adapt code on the fly to make it work with Android’s kernel and programming libraries. Even 3D benchmarks run properly.

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📅 March 12, 2009

Cyder: Manage Cydia From Your PC

Im so excited about this one. Today it’s the first time in a looong long time im glad that i got a PC. The software, that made me so exiced, its called Cyder and it will let you manage everything in Cydia straight from your PC.  Cyder lets you sync, download/update packages and install them to the iPhone and it’s wicked . especially for people that can’t get 3G speeds or Wi-Fi.

Cyder it’s FREE and you can get it from here. On the page you will see a button that says Click here to download Cider . On the rest of the page, you will basically see just some curves on your screen ( no offence to the language or the people who speaks it ) and i didnt even bother to translate the page. Instead i decided to figure out the software by myself. Not exactly brain surgery .
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