How to profile "native code" in Android?

Are there tools for converting native Android development code to cross platform code?

• We had explored the idea of building our app to be cross platform using appcelerator a few years back, but didnt go through since it was still nascent back then and the experience we wanted had to be native. But now since the web tech has picked, we have been left behind on IOS since we only have a native android app. Is there a way with some new tools to convert native code to cross platform particularly for android. Or is there any tool to port android app to ios? I've heard of Apportable that does it the other way round.

• Answer:

  I have been an Android developer for quite some time now, but I am not aware of a tool which cross compiles an Android app to iOS or for that matter any other mobile platform. However there is a glimmer of hope. I came across this tool J2ObjC- http://link-https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/. I read through it. As per my understanding - it only converts the Java classes toObBjective C classes. It is compatible with Objectiv C's Foundation API and other framework and the resulting classes can be imported in to XCode without much fuss. I have not used on this tool. You can look up this. But I am sure it will not be as simple as clicking one single button and getting an iOS compatible deliverable source code. The developer will have to take the pain of managing all the resources. There is another development tool Xamarine recently introduced by Microsoft. This might not be exactly what you are looking for. But in future if you want to reduce the programming effort Xamarine could be good switch. The development is done in C# and you still get native look and feel for all major mobile platforms. Another big advantage is - this is personal- C# syntax is much easier to get around (almost like Java) than Objective C.