Thread: Cocotron (Cocoa reimplementation) port to Maemo
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millenomi is offline millenomi
2009-09-15 , 06:34
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Wow. This could be really amazing. Am I understanding this right? This could, eventually, allow iPhone apps to be compiled for Maemo devices without (many) changes?
I'm a staunch opponent of cross-platform UI layers in applications that are meant for wide distribution -- especially in the mobile UI field where there are so many variations of the basic concepts. So I would never port, say, the iPhone's UIKit to Maemo, instead opting for rewriting the UI from scratch to fit well in the new environment.

But that aside, yes, it's exactly the reason for which I did that. I have an iPhone app, which by the way is also open source, and its "backend" (the new-style one I'm building in the /3/ folder of the repository) can now easily be ported to Maemo without me having to duplicate code. Yay.

(Plus: I can work on it and compile it from Xcode, without ever leaving the Mac except for testing. Yay again.)
Last edited by millenomi; 2009-09-15 at 06:40.
 

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