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Cross-platform development is the practice of developing software products or services for multiple platforms or software environments. The idea of cross-platform development is that a software application or product should work well in more than one specific digital habitat. This capability is typically pursued in order to sell software for more than one proprietary operating system. In general, cross-platform development can make a program less efficient. However, in many cases, the makers of software figured out that the limitations of cross-platform development are worth dealing with in order to offer an application or product to a wider set of users. This paper discusses the development of a code converter from Android to iOS and vice versa through trans-compiler approach, the challenges encountered in the process and the outcomes resulted by this attempt.
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We wish to acknowledge the help provided by Eng. El-Shimaa S. Al-Kaliouby and Eng Amany M. Shobak for their guidance throughout this project. We would also like to thank our colleagues Aly M. Aly and Mahmoud Hamdy for their assistance and advice. We cannot forget the support of Dr. Maged Ghonaima and ITAC in achieving our goal by providing us for the hardware needed for this work.
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Salama, D.I., Hamza, R.B., Kamel, M.I., Muhammad, A.A., Yousef, A.H. (2020). TCAIOSC: Trans-Compiler Based Android to iOS Converter. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2019. AISI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31129-2_77
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