Real or Fake? iOS apps running on Playbook!

**SnoozerBold** · 06-12-2012, 08:21 PM

Wow great work guys, I've been following this since the weekend but was skeptical about it being a hoax and still was earlier today. Minded you I know nothing about coding I've just seen many a hoax online. I was starting to soften to the idea today bit with Crackberry contact with them and more videos I'm a believer now. Great work! I'm excited to see how this all plays out with Apple and the question of this ever being released. Exciting times ahead, indeed.

**Cozz4ever** · 06-12-2012, 08:24 PM

Just make sure no one updates their playbooks. We maybe won't be able to jailbreak them

**supraking** · 06-12-2012, 08:50 PM

Nicely done. Soon the iOS community will pick up on the news and start trashing the PlayBook, "look, it doesn't even do the maps properly." Haha.

Nice bit of hackery dude, keep up the great work. Maybe RIM will give you a job actually doing something useful over there :P

**abwan11** · 06-12-2012, 08:57 PM

Hey cat can you get the playbook to run mountain lion

**digtech** · 06-12-2012, 09:14 PM

Its about time people come off the notion that "RIM is doing nothing" just because a hacker created an emulator for IOS.
The playbook that i have... Can more than hold its own against any tablet on the market...It just needs support. RIM might be slow but they certainly arent "not doing nothing"

QNX is their testimony... The only platform on the market that can run three different OS!

And thats only in the playbook sphere...
Html 5? Mobile fusion? Best when it comes to security? OS 7 was pretty decent if you ask me. Just because they not giving you an app for everything doesnt mean they havent been doin stuff....

Back to the topic already.......so as u were saying Cat, u managed to get IOS apps* running on the playbook... Interesting, very ingenius. How did APPLE not see that coming.

**mkaa00x** · 06-12-2012, 10:12 PM

Holy! I used to have an ipod but then i lost it and now i dont have the app that i created...

**ayekon** · 06-12-2012, 10:18 PM

I'm waiting for someone to come in and say they have a consumer distro of QNX running on their "New iPad"

**dbmalloy** · 06-12-2012, 10:32 PM

Cheers to the OP.... Impressive effort... hope something comes of it... One of the reasons I love BB is it is "fun" to timker with.... this is a great example of timkering at it's finest....

**Dapper37** · 06-12-2012, 10:44 PM

A few thoughts,
1) The best thing this is doing is generating the needed buzz around QNX and BB10, even if Cat doesn't tell us what his intension's are. Or Apple stops this attempt. It's as good as closing the barn door after the horse has left the building. Its out there.
2) this is a bigger tease than watching striper's through a plexy glass wall. Come on Cat, brother whats your plans.
3) I cant wait to tell people that, "ahem" IOS, Iphone, BB10 has an App for that!!!!

**BBB78** · 06-12-2012, 11:12 PM

LOL at number 3

**narci** · 06-12-2012, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by digtech

Back to the topic already.......so as u were saying Cat, u managed to get IOS running on the playbook... Interesting, very ingenius. How did APPLE not see that coming.

he got ios apps to run on the playbook, not ios itself.

**thatplaybookguy** · 06-12-2012, 11:18 PM

Personally I'd like to hire the OP to make a few apps and games that I have in mind. how are you with augmented reality?

**digtech** · 06-13-2012, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by narci

he got ios apps to run on the playbook, not ios itself.

Wat i meant but thanks, stand corrected

**dpks** · 06-13-2012, 12:25 AM

Originally Posted by lawguyman

So one guy working alone has succeeded in making some pretty sophisticated iOS apps work while a team of RIM developers has taken a year and a half and we get some percentage of mostly crappy Android Apps mostly working most of the time.

This is why I am afraid that RIM is doomed to fail. If one guy can do this (presumably while earning a living doing something else), what on Earth has RIM and all of its resources been up to (other than squandering those resources)? This is a legitimate question. Why is the Android Player not perfect and why does it not run all Android Apps?

RIM had a similar project internally working over a year ago, but they put the kibosh on it because management decided they had enough problems to deal with without bringing on the full brunt of Apple's wrath as well.

**grahamf** · 06-13-2012, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by WinningWithLogic

This seems very hard to believe. We're not talking here just about implementing some trivial Objective-C classes that are missing. The underlying iOS frameworks are heavy duty - we're talking about the implementation of tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

Just recently everyone in the hacker community was amazed at the scope of magenta (Somewhere in the middle ...) which doesn't even claim to do a tenth of what you purport to have done (yet, though...the author is working to implement CoreGraphics, UiKit, etc...to support iPhone OS 1.0).

For the scope of the claimed work, a YouTube video just isn't credible...not even close...you pretty much have to be either:
(a) a proven/demonstrated real-life wizard; or
(b) provide detailed sources/code repo/technical details, etc.

I wouldn't say that it would've been "tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code," the demos all seem to be OpenGL games that don't seem to use UI APIs, and are unlikely to use a lot of API integration.

I'd love to see an application ported that uses the iOS for GUI layouts, and API calls to core system services (such as notifications, the stock apps, background application manager, etc)

**varunsain** · 06-13-2012, 12:35 AM

haha EPIC! So I'm expecting something on the lines of 'Skype in your face now' but i doubt if that's going to happen..

**Acerfan** · 06-13-2012, 12:37 AM

That's in impressive

**snihed** · 06-13-2012, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by dpks

RIM had a similar project internally working over a year ago, but they put the kibosh on it because management decided they had enough problems to deal with without bringing on the full brunt of Apple's wrath as well.

How'd you know there was 'a similar project' and working? Unless you work for RIM and decided to make a CB account just now to dispute and save face?lol

**pradeep23oct** · 06-13-2012, 01:14 AM

@ BusinessCat2000: hey Awesome job man, just release it assp

**greatwiseone** · 06-13-2012, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by dpks

RIM had a similar project internally working over a year ago, but they put the kibosh on it because management decided they had enough problems to deal with without bringing on the full brunt of Apple's wrath as well.

Yeah, RIM legal probably put a kibosh on this. Dalvik is easy because it's open source, but the analysis for this will be more complicated even if the developer is just using open API's in iOS...

**ayekon** · 06-13-2012, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by grahamf

I wouldn't say that it would've been "tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code," the demos all seem to be OpenGL games that don't seem to use UI APIs, and are unlikely to use a lot of API integration.

I'd love to see an application ported that uses the iOS for GUI layouts, and API calls to core system services (such as notifications, the stock apps, background application manager, etc)

That's a serious stretch my friend

**borceg** · 06-13-2012, 03:43 AM

Originally Posted by businesscat2000

I would like to release to the public, but not sure if I will be able to.

Put is as opensource project for research purposes

**Superfly_FR** · 06-13-2012, 04:23 AM

http://crackberry.com/developer-gets...lackberry-real

**xDragonZ** · 06-13-2012, 05:28 AM

OP is it possible for us to make an emulator for android OS with more API access (eg: native library , microphone access , android root access) than current Android Player ?

**ichat** · 06-13-2012, 07:28 AM

If you ask me, I will make 200 mirrors of this software and then make sure that apple can kiss their a** trying to track it down.

If it were to be released. What's setting you down?!