RHrhodysurf·Sep 14, 2015
Dont they use this j2objc? https://github.com/google/j2objc
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j2objc
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google / j2objc
j2objc
A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime.
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15Mentions
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6KGitHub stars
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What it is
A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime.
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Observed mentions: 2014-03-18 21:34:31 UTC to 2024-06-27 16:05:32 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesHow Google Inbox does it: Java and GWT
There was a presentation at GWTCreate where Ray Cromwell laid out some of the magic on how they used GWT to handle this. The slides for the talk are here[0]. One of the key pieces here is that coding in Java gets you the web (with GWT), Android, and iOS using j2objc[1]. They posted a demo app showing this off[2].
The videos aren't up for the talks yet, but the Keynote from GWTCreate is posted (Ray gave that talk as well)[3].
[0] http://goo.gl/5zNFEm
[1] https://github.com/google/j2objc
[2] https://github.com/Sfeir/jhybrid
[3] http://gwtcreate.com/videos/
In How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web