From: Dr. A. K. S. <al...@se...> - 2010-05-26 08:51:07
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Sorry for the late reply, but my app is also still in the App Store and sells reasonably well... http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/id365473377 Kudos to the development team to switch the license to LGPL! In fact this suggests one safe way to prevent Apple from delisting XMLVM-ported apps: porting as many apps as possible to the platform! Once there are at least a few popular apps among them, Apple will find it hard to prevent people from using XMLVM to port their apps. With the half a dozen that are currently in there, it would still be easy for Apple to "pull the plug". I hereby suggest a Google Summer-of-Code project where Android developers can contribute their app code and get iPhone versions back. These could be made available as free apps via the development team's account (since a lot of people might not want to install XCode/MacOS and get an iPhone for testing) or given back to the developers to list on their own (this could now also be done for paid apps). Instead of porting one app at a time, we'd create tools to port a lot of apps at once and address remaining issues with XMLVM by highest frequency first. The goal would be to plug in the Android code and get out the iPhone code without any changes in the application. Surely Google should be interested in that, perhaps we can get a contribute your code link on the main Android development page? ;-) I can help with scripting and automating the porting of so many apps, also with compiling (I've got an VMWare image w/ MacOS/XCode for Intel - debugging does not work on AMD, everything else does). Some local people here in Austria have also expressed interest. I don't have a clue what needs to be done to set up a Summer-of-Code project, or how best to get developers to contribute their Android code for porting. I am afraid we are too late for this year, but perhaps next year would be a ok. Best, Alex -- Dr. Alexander K. Seewald Seewald Solutions www.seewald.at Tel. +43(664)1106886 Fax. +43(1)2533033/2764 |