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I want to code in Objective-C, and I don't think Android allows that, so I'm stuck programming for iPhone/iPad. I wish Google will support Objectice-C calls against their APIs.

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You could write your Android app in Objective-C and then run a program that translates it to Java. Google doesn't prohibit you from doing that.

Afaik, Android has a Native SDK which means you can incorporate C code: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html -- I'd imagine, if you can get some cross compilation done with Obj-C it would work, as long as your output was a JNI library.

You could use a JVM-based "close substitute" (e.g., Objective J->JS->Rhino) for the UI portion, which makes JNI calls to an Obj-C backend.

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