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Android application market is blooming these days with great deals. Iphone application development and Android application development are the main leaders of the app market. The competition is very close. Now the next step is to have portable applications which can run on multi platforms very conveniently. Porting is actually a process of writing an executable program in a way that it can be run on another platform other than the original environment. A software or application is said to portable if there cost of porting to a new platform is less than writing it from the start. The less the software will have its implementation cost, more portable it will be. Porting of iPhone applications to Android platform is purely dependent on the environment used while writing the original code of the application.Before porting iPhone applications to Android, the app is analyzed on the basis of code complexity, reliability of GUI tools and lastly ability of the developer. If the developer is able to write portable code than it will save his lot of time. According to developers Android SDK is much simpler to think and process. Therefore the iPhone applications can be easily ported to the Android platforms. The iPhone applications are written in variations of C where as the Android applications are based on deviation of JAVA. Although JAVA and C are not much different. The main difference is in the Operating System support. In coming years, portability will earn a good feedback from the smartphone users but it will fuel the competition between the manufacturers of the smartphones to hold back their users. It is because, at that time users will look for a phone which can support the application of both Apple and Android. It will save their cost and give them more choice in the applications and functionality. But in return it will increase the responsibility of the developer to construct a code that could be easily ported to another developing environments at minimum cost possible. Thus, porting of iPhone applications to Android applications is an emerging business which needs consistent and continuous efforts from developers. I am Jimmy Parker,have written many articles on Importance of mobile programming,iPhone apps development, android programming, Google TV programming etc.I keep trying to get something new out of the best through online resources from time to time.
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