Developing iPhone Applications using Java

Google Tech Talks
October 14, 2008

ABSTRACT

Apple's iPhone has resulted in significant interest from users and developers alike. Apple's SDK for the iPhone is based on Objective-C as the development language as well as Cocoa for the GUI.

Unfortunately Apple's license agreement for the iPhone SDK prohibits the porting of the Java virtual machine to the iPhone. In this presentation we introduce an Open Source Java-to-Objective-C cross-compiler as well as a Java-based implementation of the Cocoa library. With the help of these tools, iPhone applications can be written in pure Java. Using the Java version of Cocoa, it is possible to run a Java-based iPhone application as a Java desktop/applet application that can be cross-compiled to run natively on the iPhone. The talk will discuss the challenges of the Java-to-Objective-C cross-compiler as well as the Java-based version of Cocoa. Details are available at http://www.xmlvm.org/

Speaker: Arno Puder
Arno Puder is an Associate Professor at the San Francisco State University. Prior to his current position, he worked for AT Labs Research. His interests include middleware, ubiquitous computing, and applications for sensor networks. He is one of the founders of the Open Source CORBA implementation called MICO.

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[MinecraftMan7778]

can it work for ipod touch aswell?

[Hesi Dinata]

Anyone tried the iPhonezilax Secrets (just google it)? I've heard many unbelivable things about it and my cousin get his first iphone apps made without any programming experience at all with it.

[igrewold]

Apple LLVM Compiler has great support for C, Objective-C, and C++

So u is rite.

[MikeCOYS18]

of course cause C++ ain't Objective C

[Clint Hernandes]

@fd5y yes, that's a free site to reverse phone, the link is on my profile

[Gilbert Osborne]

He didn't join NeXT he started it.