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A comment on J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime.

Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by jrockway on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:13PM (#4519862)
Why not use something like gcj to compile directly to native code?
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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by sitharus on Friday September 14, 2012 @06:29AM (#4520999)
There's no supplied GCJ for iOS. While it could be supported last time I looked GCJ had some strange assumptions around the architecture it uses.

Plus this way it's fairly simple to treat your Java as a business logic layer and code the UI in Cocoa/ObjC. Your UI is going to be device specific anyway.

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