Thread: Android apps to run on Apple & other platforms
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Old 10-12-2011, 04:01 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
Huh? What is it about an IM client that requires downloading and then interpreting or emulating program code?

Edit: The rule is questions is: 3.3.2 — An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Documented APIs and built-in interpreter(s).

So it is simply not possible for someone to release on the App Store an app which would then allow the running of Android apps. What is more probable is that what they are discussing is a way of melding their code with a given Android app to produce a new iOS app. Essentially an Android-iOS emulation layer.
HTML is an interpreted language for text layout, and many IM services use it. That is what I thought of when you said that interpreted code wasn't allowed.
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