Round 1: Development. Let’s start with how you actually go about creating an app for either Android or iOS. In both cases, you’re going to have a lot of documentation and support to help you ...

So for Android to become competitive with iOS devices and to reduce BOM complexity so we can really have high-performing devices at the $200 price point, we need to get rid of Java. How did we get ...

RoboVM lets developers use lambdas and defaults, and it provides full access to the hardware and native iOS APIs.

Google’s open source J2ObjC translator, meanwhile, takes Java code and translates it to Objective-C source code, Apple’s code of choice for iOS devices. Google intends for the translator to ...

32 thoughts on “ Writing Android Apps In C, No Java ... There’s also Boden.io for cross platform C++ based development that works on both Android and iOS the same way, and hopefully it has ...

Android apps are in Java, while iOS is in Objective C, but this tool allows those who develop in Java an easier way to convert their apps to iOS. Interesting move. Related articles.

Temperatures dropped about 30 degrees in Hades this morning when Apple announced they were relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps. They will also be allowing ...

The tool also allows you to use any Swift/Objective-C library for iOS, and any Kotlin/Java library on Android. If you’re an iOS developer and are interested in bringing your app to Android, give ...

Apple announced iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, and the new iPhone update comes with a fresh new 'Liquid Glass' look and plenty of features - and there are loads of iOS 26 supported devices, which is great news.

Google's trying to make that job a little easier, introducing a new tool that automatically converts Java source code into Objective-C, which is used in iPad and iPhone apps. ... iOS and Android.