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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Hardware Mashup & a Quick Inquiry





As most of you are aware, bootdroid will not only bring you the look and feel of an iOS device, but also the core features that are exclusive to these devices. There is a bit of an issue when it comes to retina displays. This being because for every application, there is always a regular sized image (image.png) and an image twice the size (image@2x.png) for users with retina display. When it comes to hardware and optimizing your Android device, there are two conflicts we face and a decision that must be made.
  • Whether your device should optimize for regular images or HD images
  • Whether your device can optimize for HD images
    • Screen resolution must be the same size or larger then 960x640
    • Your processor must be able to display these images quickly (if this cannot be accomplished then games, graphics, movies, ect. will be include a minor to major lag issue)
You may be wondering why we can't just simply optimize the images to the size of the resolution. Well, easy answer, it would be impossible. Not only did Apple not include this feature when comes to running the platform on their device (which is why they require you to create two images for regular resolution and HD resolution), but they've also managed to wipe the option of the face of the Earth.. or iOS as we call it. So, as you may have noticed, there is going to be quite a bit of "checking and handling" when it comes to dual-booting this platform.

I would also like to know what you want most out of this project for use with this project. What features are you excited to have on your Android device?
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19 comments:

  1. Me14 February 2012 at 21:44

    I want to be able to play ios only games

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  2. -------17 February 2012 at 04:28

    I would really like to have my htc running the smooth and ease of ios. Furthermore, all those ios-exclusive apps are really welcome.
    Keep up the good work. Thumbs up for your project.

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  3. Stephen O'Connor18 February 2012 at 05:45

    I want to play ios5 games, you could make it more loke an emulator. also have you got a XDA Developers thread

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  4. Knuts0n18 February 2012 at 09:46

    I agree with all the comments above and I would also love to rub it in all those iPhone users faces that I can do everything they cn more!
    Those games would be awesome to

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  5. stefelz19 February 2012 at 06:54

    i want to be be able to jailbreak the ios and get all the cool cydia apps they have, considering that android is open source but yet we cant do all of that. if that isnt enough i would love to have all those games they have that android clearly doesnt have

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  6. TyphoonScotland19 February 2012 at 16:21

    I would love to be able to use iPhone only apps, and with this huge development it could see more and more iPhone only apps being ported to Android, yet again, they wouldn't need to be if we could run iOS. I also love the idea of this being pre-jailbroken as it means that we can take advantage of Android's SD-Card capacity, maybe, and then we could have even larger space to download all of cydia's best apps. ;)

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  7. goggle19 February 2012 at 22:44

    Just a thought... how about using the ios 5 of iphone 3gs. the 3gs is only 163 ppi. much lower than most android devices. so, there should not be much problems unless except for apps that require retina display to work. i think 3gs can still use most of the apps but it is very slow due to the low specs and android devices now have higher specs even more than iphone 4s.

    Its just a thought... correct me if i am wrong or my idea is impractical..

    Keep up the good work and I would love to have the ios 5 on my android phone.

    cheers

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    1. Anonymous20 February 2012 at 18:16

      It's a good thought, but most android devices of the latest releases have a higher screen resolutions then that of the 3GS. This will result in the user getting a blurry effect on literally everything. When it comes to games running on bootdroid, I'm still baffled about what the solution might be. It's like playing a square sized video (600x600px) on a wide screen TV (1280×720). Not only will you get some blur, but there's also space which the video is not optimized to play on. Stretching it to fit would make it look horrible, and making the display larger would only make it look horrible.

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  8. Jelle20 February 2012 at 01:04

    I would love to be able to have ios back. It's awesome to totally modify it through cydia. Also I love the games. But if you can't port the whole OS, maybe you can just make android devices run the apps. Keep it up!

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  9. Adam20 February 2012 at 17:28

    i will beta test it motorola droid bionic.

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  10. kido09625 February 2012 at 19:12

    I would want the ability to run all the cool cydia apps and play ios games

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  11. Medo1 March 2012 at 10:52

    I would really love to have IMessage. that's mainly what im looking forward to

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  12. zerlneo4 March 2012 at 06:26

    i would like to use cool cydia apps and this camfrog thing to my galaxy s 2. cant wait for the beta test. i wonder when the first beta test release :)

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  13. breakout7 March 2012 at 17:31

    I would love the lockscreen slide notifications and to be able to run iphone only apps.I really just wanna be able to get on instagram

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  14. FIVE10 March 2012 at 05:27

    any updates?

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  15. mmmatt31216 March 2012 at 19:15

    Does this guy even work on this anymore!?!
    Because if he does I would want some updates!
    PLEASE :)

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  16. Anonymous18 March 2012 at 03:44

    Do you think it will work on my asus transformer TF101 ?

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  17. Mr.2xY29 March 2012 at 07:25

    Will this app be HUGE? Just because I have a little memory on my Galaxy Gio, so think about move2sd function!

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