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The Myriad's developers were reported by 9to5Mac to be working on enabling Android applications to run on iPad. The goal of Alien Dalvik 2.0 project is that users will be able to run applications coded for Android, on iPad's iOS system.
The development allows the impossible to become possible: you can run Android applications directly from the iPad Home screen, as if they were regular App Store applications.
The Android applications will run on iPad same way as on Android without any problem. Alien Dalvik 2.0 is completely clear and can be installed without disturbing the user. Users can access to many more applications, which increases the number of downloads, so developers can also increase revenues. – claims the Myriad Group.
Therefore it is possible that running a native iPad app will feel different from an app written for Android, and probably there will be compatibility and other issues.
There a question arising immediately: Why would anyone want to install Android applications on his iPad?
On Monday, Apple's vice president Scott Forstall, who is responsible for iOS applications, said that 140,000 out of their 500,000 applications in the App Store are specifically developed for iPad.
In contrast with this, in most cases, applications developed for Android will not work so perfectly and smoothly as their iOS counterparts. On the other hand, it is true that most of them are free or supported by advertisements, so probably there might be some people who give a chance to Alien Dalvik as well.
Alien Dalvik is already available on several platforms, including Nokia N9 smartphone running MeeGo, and now there are applications working on it already, although not as smoothly as on native Android devices.
The Myriad Group would also like to make Alien Dalvik workable on other devices in the future, including set-top boxes and several other smartphones and tablets, too.
The development will be presented first at CITA 2011 conference this week.
Anyway, the idea is interesting, and we are curiously waiting how Alien Dalvik 2.0 will work in real situations.
