Can an iPod touch run .jar games?
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August 31st, 2009
Is that even possible? I dont know much about the iPhone or iPod touch but Im pretty sure that the iPod touch is just a iPhone without the phone part but is running the same OS. And pretty much all phones can run java programs. Or is there a phone emulator? Im just wondering because there are some pretty fun touchscreen phone games that would be great on an iPod.
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Nope, iPod touch doesn’t run Java, or Adobe :(
iPhone SDK Agreement section 3.3.2:
An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).
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So, no 3rd party apps for the iPhone can run Flash, or Java, JavaScript, nor is a Commodore 64 emulator allowed.
There’s a lot of reasons for this, security is one, and operational efficiency (affecting battery life) is another. Apple can change the license terms at any time. And Apple can decide to make exceptions for certain partners if they choose.
Well lucky me because I happen to have a jailbroken and modded Ipod touch. My friend was throwing his out so I thought I’d take and play around with it.
It isn’t strictly speaking impossible. It wouldn’t be impossible to compile Java (or Java bytecode) to ARM assembly for the iPhone, but I don’t know of any compilers that can.
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