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David
David

Reputation: 397

Port Android Application website? (edit: To any other platform?)

Is there anyway to port an Android application to a website?

EDIT: or port it to any other platform

For example, if people do not have Android (iOS, Computer, etc), I would like them to navigate to a website and access a web-version of the Android application.

Is this possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 165

Answers (1)

davidcesarino
davidcesarino

Reputation: 16228

The best alternative is probably to do the opposite: start developing with an API that already provides support for HTML and Android applications.

Something like PhoneGap comes to mind.

But is there a tool that ports an already-made Android app to any other platform?

None that I'm aware of. While you can encapsulate HTML apps inside the Android web components, you'd need to rewrite an entire compatibility layer to translate all the Android APIs to their equivalent HTML/Javascript... of course, I'm not even considering the feasibility of such project, considering the differences between each.

EDIT: or port it to any other platform

Sorry for not addressing your question fully, I didn't notice that. Yes, like Chris Stratton said, RIM were allowing Android apps to run on its Playbook tablets. Still, for HTML, to achieve great interoperability like you first asked, I'm not aware of any that would perform such task.

Upvotes: 1

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