Is it possible to run APK Android apps on iPad iPhone devices

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All- I recently published an android app on Google Play  I also made it available on my website as an  apk file  I hate to ask this as I am not a big fan of Apple but could an Apple user download my app from my website  Just wondering as a lot of my friends are Apple users  Thanks for your time

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Apple users can download your  apk file  however they cannot run it  It is a different file format than iPhone apps   ipa

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The app can t be run natively  but it could be run on an emulator  You can use ManyMo to embed them in a website and make users add your app to their home screen  This link should be useful for making the app more realistic  Users could then only press the share button and add the app to their home screen  All data will be deleted when the  app  is closed in their iOS devices so you should use the Internet cloud for storage  It can t access camera or multi touch  but it may be useful

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There is another option not mentioned previously    Pieceable Viewer has unfortunately stopped its service at December 31  2012 but open-sourced its software  You need to compile your iOS application for the emulator and Pieceable s software will embed it in a webpage which hosts the application  This webpage can be used to run the iOS application  See Pieceable s for more details

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It is not natively possible to run Android application under iOS  which powers iPhone  iPad  iPod  etc    This is because both runtime stacks use entirely different approaches  Android runs Dalvik  a  variant of Java   bytecode packaged in APK files while iOS runs Compiled  from Obj-C  code from IPA files  Excepting time effort money and litigations      there is nothing inherently preventing an Android implementation on Apple hardware  however   It looks to package a small Dalvik VM with each application and targeted towards developers   See iPhoDroid   Looks to be a dual-boot solution for 2G 3G jailbroken devices  Very little information available  but there are some YouTube videos   See iAndroid      iAndroid is a new iOS application for jailbroken devices that simulates the Android operating system experience on the iPhone or iPod touch  While it   s still very far from completion  the project is taking shape    I am not sure the approach es  it uses to enable this  it could be emulation or just a simulation  e g   looks like    The requirement of being jailbroken makes it sound like emulation might be used     See BlueStacks  per the Holo Dev s comment   It looks to be an  Android App Player  for OS X  and Windows   However  afaik  it does not  currently  target iOS devices      YMMV

[android] Is it possible to run .APK/Android apps on iPad/iPhone devices?

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