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May 20, 2014, 10:33:27 AM |
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The software that is called Cider, has been created by some nerdy postgraduate researchers at Columbia University.
It lets Android gadget owners mix and match the Android and iOS apps.
The research team has said that Cider was only a prototype and that they had no plans to turn it into a commercial product.
Android users cannot get at apps that call on media in Apple iTunes and iOS gadget owners struggle to use Flash-based content.
Cider would let people use just one gadget to access both.
Getting an application written for one operating system to run on another often involves a technique known as virtualisation.
To avoid the performance problems that virtualisation can introduce, the Columbia researchers adopted a different approach that involves the core or kernel of the Android operating system.
A demo video produced by the researchers shows both iOS and Android apps running on a Nexus 7 tablet, though some people commentated that the Apple apps run relatively slowly on the device.
Some Apple apps that call on a phone's camera, GPS system or Bluetooth perform poorly and the researchers are continuing their work on Cider to fix these problems.
What do you guys think, Is there an Android based Iphone coming up next. Certainly they are faster and more efficient than a IOS operating system.
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