How easy to "port" to Android??

[DesignDawg]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if any of you developers know how big of a process it would be to port, say, an app written for the iphone to the G1? Now, I'm not talking about hacking something. I mean, the developer has already written something designed for a mobile device like this, and wants to make it available for the Android market as well. This seems like one of the surest ways Android will compete with the iphone. If all those apps out there are easy to port over, there will be very little worthwhile software that is exclusive to iphone, and potentially quite a bit that IS exclusive to Android, having been held back from the Apps store.

Thoughts?

[divestoclimb]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if any of you developers know how big of a process it would be to port, say, an app written for the iphone to the G1?

Oblig:

The first rule of iPhone development is you do not talk about iPhone development

But seriously, given my experience with other SDK's and GUI's it may be considerable work to port an app that was designed for one over to another. It all depends on whether or not the developer munged the SDK-specific code with the code that's actually doing all the work (MVC principles).

[Sidonuke]

In order to port iPhone apps to gPhone apps would first take a complete rewrite of all hooks and gui elements. Anything accessing the os or "Android" systems would be redone and (Objective-C != Java)