Another clever trick for Android: compatible with iPhone apps

　Google AndroidAfter Mobile Phone development for a long time, we still cannot see machines that can be put on the market. At a meeting named ecomm, rich miner, a consultant for Google's mobile platform department, said the Android Market was not earlier than the second half of this year, but it gave fans a surprise. He explicitly stated that the android open-source platform will tryIPhoneDevelopers run their programs on Android. In addition, Android will focus on makingLinuxMobile phone system platforms are more interconnected.

Miner said Apple's treatment of iPhone developers is not proportional to their contribution. "On the iPhone, you cannot create some specificSoftwareApple does not support multi-processor processing. They do not allow you to run programs in the background. They do not allow you to add annotation languages to programs ."

Oh, even if these are all true, but this does not stopSunPublicly express your selfless love to Apple, which Miner said as a Linux-basedOpen SourceOperating SystemAndroid is about to rival the iPhone. "My goal is to make a popular CompanyMobile phoneThen, the software can run on both platforms (iPhone and Android). After all, the two are the same application environment ." In other words, Android will try to be compatible with iPhone programs.

At the same time, miner insisted that a major improvement of Android is that developers do not needCross-platformRun your own program to develop additional specialized versions. This proves that android is not simply a "(another) Linux system ". "Yes, there are many Linux systems in the initial stage, but the problem is that they are too many. In addition, they only focus on the Linux system itself and omit the mobile StackOthers. That is to say, the two companies have created two mobile phones, so they have two solutions for stacking, and you have to write two programs for the two phones ."

Didn't you just say that you don't have to write programs for two or more platforms when using Android? How can this paradox be solved? Maybe miner thinks the iPhone is useless than what he just revealed. "In the past year, the iPhone has had an absolutely vigorous promotion, and Apple did something right for their early mobile phone experience. They justReleaseTheir third-party development environment. However, due to restrictions on the business model, the benefits are tiny. You don't need to talk about it. Many blogs have already discussed it ."

We estimate that miner may also be included in many blogs. He must have written about the powerful openness of Android.

Google said "open" is probably the truth. The source code of the first Android prototype will be put online for free research. "When we talk about open source, we think of source code ." Miner's remarks clearly refer not only to Apple, but also to the extreme, making people feel that they are not so open.Microsoft. Miner mentioned that he used to develop data in orange.WindowsThe mobile phone example of the mobile platform proves how difficult it is to improve a WM mobile phone because there is no source code. Miner believes that opening up and allowing modification of the system to meet the needs of software development is one of the prerequisites for Android to save time. "The Android SDK has downloaded 750,000 times. Even if 1% of the people in the project are developing programs, we have-people to help us develop programs. This is because we are open. You probably have never seen many people give a system development program that is not even available. If Programmers think that their programs cannot be released after they are developed (because their degrees of freedom are not high enough), this is of course impossible ."

 

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An important reason for the end date is that there is not much developer response.

Apple opened the iPhone SDK a few days ago, and there were 0.1 million downloads in just four days. There were a large number of contacts, although motivated by the sharing mode!

Android is a good move: The apps developed by developers for your iPhone can also run on my Android platform.

It means that I am more open. The second reason is my popularity index. The application prospects will not be lost to the iPhone. Of course, mobile consumers are also happy to see

Such a result.