System Android or iOS? And if the two operating systems to begin to co-exist in the same smartphone or tablet ? Six researchers from the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York, say it is possible with Cider, an operating system compatibility that lets you run applications designed for different mobile ecosystems.
Through Cider, researchers were able to mix and match applications for Google’s Android and iOS, the operating system of the iPad and iPhone, which discharged to smartphones and tablets .
operating system, which should not be marketed and exists only in prototype was created to try to find solutions to the limitations that users face when they are subject to a system or other . This is the case, for example, when trying to access an Android iTunes (Apple) and run downloaded with programs that require Flash applications, not compatible with iPad or iPhone.
In academic report that the team of researchers published is explained that the co-existence of the two systems is possible through “a new combination of techniques for binary compatibility that includes two new mechanisms: adaptation of a code at compile time and diplomatic functions.”
Simply put, Cider can copy the libraries and frameworks you need and convince the application code that is running on Apple XNU kernel and not on Linux (Android) kernel .
A video created by the researchers shows both iOS and Android applications to run on a tablet Nexus 7.
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