[fareesh]

I remember being in an IRC regularly 10-12 years ago where there was a community that was semi-active about a project to port android to the iPhone created by David Wang (planetbeing). There were a few builds going around at the time which I tried out. This video had gone somewhat viral at the time which is what sparked my interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJj0kHQgC9w. It seems like that project eventually became "Project Sandcastle" and the whole topic has seen some kind of recent resurgence from the looks of it.

[fathyb]

I remember flexing my iPhone 3G dual-booting iOS and Android back in high-school. The project was named iDroid: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IDroid

It taught me to create custom ramdisks and kernels for iDevices, which eventually landed me my first job as a digital forensics SWE.

[fareesh]

yep that's the one

[steeve]

David Wang is actually the cofounder of Corellium !

[extrememacaroni]

wow that brings back memories. back then android was truly hideous compared to iOS, unless aided by 3rd party launchers.

[fareesh]

It was ugly for the longest time but ahead on several features. I remember the iPhone not having copy and paste for what felt like ages. A lot of the good stuff was on Cydia.

[WhyNotHugo]

Odd how the tables have turned. Copy-paste is ubiquitous on iOS nowadays, but pretty absent on Android. On Android, I haven't come across a single application that supports copying an image. It's infuriating.

Flutter doesn't even support pasting images at all (so things like messaging apps can't support pasting images). I get an impression that Google/Android want copy-paste to disappear. My favourite conspiracy theory on this is that it's so people will have to use the "share" sheet, which shares links with tracking/analytics (rather than pasting a raw image which cannot be tracked).

[soared]

Around the same time there were projects to put Nintendo (game boy?) games on ipods as well.

[reaperducer]

I suspect you're being downvoted because there are people who are too young/don't remember that there were a number of games available for the iPod from big gaming companies. Yes, the clickwheel iPod.

The 17-year-old iPod Video cranking out tunes on my desk right now has a really good version of Tetris on it, and one of the best ports of Ms. Pac-Man ever. Once you get used to navigating the maze with the wheel, it's a great game.

[solarkraft]

Do you mean emulators? That's how I played Tetris on my iPod Touch.

[zeckalpha]

And Linux on Game Boys!

[captainkrtek]

Have similar memories on IRC rooting Android devices, lots of fun times and great memories

[zekrioca]

In the video he browses to an old website (http://galiaxy.net/), and it displays a design website from Alisa. Is "Alisa" the same as Alyssa Rosenzweig from Asahi? That would be an interesting coincidence :)