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jrockway on Sept 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation too...

Why not use something like gcj to compile directly to native code?

sitharus on Sept 14, 2012 | [–]

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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