Apple apps made to run on Android devices

Apple and Android apps have been shown running side-by-side on the same gadgets thanks to software developed by United States computer scientist.

The program, called Cider, has been created by postgraduate experts at Columbia University.

Cider lets Android gadgets owners mix and match the IOS and Android applications they load on their tablet and phone.

The 6 powerful team of researchers said they embarked on the project to make Cider to get around the limitations that cell phone and table users are forced to accept.

For example Cider said that Android users cannot get at applications that call on media in iOS and Apple iTunes gadgets owners struggle to use Flash-based content.

Cider would let people use only 1 gadget to access both, said the experts.

Getting an app written for one OS system to run on another often involves an idea known as virtualisation.

To reject the performance issues that virtulisation can introduce, the Columbia experts adopted a different technique that involves the kernel or core of the Android OS.

This approach works on the instructions stream passing via an Android gadget and alters just those relating to the iOS applications. An additional program helper offers some of the specialised data those applications require to job correctly.