Students of the university of Columbia have a framework built which iOS applications on Android can run on. The support of the Cider-framework is still limited and the speed is low, but a few iOS apps already run on a Nexus 7.
The Cider software layer emulates an iPhone and also uses no virtual machine; the developers make iOS apps using Cider as a kernel, precisely by means of techniques such as compile time code adaption and diplomatic functions think that they are on an iOS kernel to run in place of the Linux kernel within Android is used. The necessary library files and frameworks of iOS by Cider are also offered to the iOS app, which code for an iOS app does not have to be adjusted.
By means of this method, the students succeeded to apps like Yelp and Apple iBooks on a Nexus 7 tablet to make it run, as a video shows. The applications run is still slow and apps which sensors to call, for example gps, are not yet working. Also the translation for the OpenGL ES code is not yet optimized. However, Android software, just run it as Cider is active, so in the future, and the iOS software in addition to Android apps can be run. The developers promise Cider to keep developing, but the source code is not yet publicly available.
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