Ask HN: Best way to converto iOS app to Android?

2 points·needleme··4 comments

Hello,

We're working on an iPhone app and planning to make it for Android as soon as we can - when the first iPhone release will be out -

We were wondering what's the best way to do that?

We know about

http://phonegap.com/

http://www.yeecco.com/

Looks like Yeecco is better since it works directly with xCode

Any advice or suggestion about other software please?

Best, Filippo

www.needle.me

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In my humble opinion you are not doing yourself a favour by using a cross platform tool. The users of Android phones (myself included) do not want to feel like 2nd rate citizens in the mobile world, they want the app to be natively integrated. There is a large difference between how iOS and Android works, and the behaviour users expect. Using a cross platform tool would be like porting a windows application to Mac and leaving out gestures.

I agree, if you want to do a good job you should go native. Anyway Java is a bit easier than obj-c so should not be too hard. But if then you don't consider it worth the work. Just don't do nothing and wait to see if you can grow enough to hire someone to do it.

Thanks both for the reply. Yes, I understand what you're saying about the fact that looks like we're underestimating Android using a cross platform tool. We're a small (hope) growing startup, so as Duiker said it's just a matter of resources - developer - for now we can't hire someone to do the work.

Totally agree but as I said to Duiker it's just a matter of resources, we can't hire an Android developer for now. Thanks for your sincere opinion!

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