Android Now Runs on the iPhone!

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Posted April 21, 2010 at 10:15pm by Shalom Levytam

Planetbeing has announced that he has got Android running on the iPhone.

"Finally breaking radio silence to bring you Android on the iPhone. :)"

I've been working on this quietly in the background. Sorry about the initial video quality, but YouTube promises that the quality will get better as the video gets processed more. The back part of the version I uploaded to Vimeo was cut off.

In the video below Android is demonstrated on an iPhone 2G; however, it should be pretty simple to port forward to the iPhone 3G. The 3GS will take more work.

Planetbeing thanks CPICH for reversing support, harmn1, posixnina, jean, marcan and saurik for patches, and last but not least, TheSeven for his work on the FTL.

Pre-built images and sources can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/?xqjzn12igfn.

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famleon - April 22, 2010 at 5:35pm

I am not sure, but what I like about my iphone is the sw and the applications, which can not be run on the iphone with android...sooooooo No need to run android...

justinishulk - April 22, 2010 at 1:36pm

Agreed, why don't get an Android phone then?

Sijo - April 22, 2010 at 11:03am

I am Sijo, a developer. I want to install this on my iPhone 2G. 2 Questions: 1) Can I make calls and use it as all other android phones? 2) At any point, can I go back to iPhone OS by restoring from iTunes? If these two are possible, I am going to install. Thanks in advance. Sijo

anonmuz - April 22, 2010 at 1:26am

This just adds more value to the iPhone, once the OS is tweeked and the soft keys ate replaced with touch keys it'll be a perfect port and a great alternative. Apple would hear less complaints. Lol

detective sims - April 22, 2010 at 12:38am

That's very cool! Apple's gonna be upset when they see this! Serves them right being so close-minded and paranoid.

vdesai - April 21, 2010 at 11:11pm

if i screw up the installation can i dfu restore it to regular iphone os? if u can than imma try it out

Jacek - April 22, 2010 at 12:35am

Can this be installed on an unlocked iPhone 3G. making the iPhone unlocked?

ds - April 22, 2010 at 7:37am

From my understanding, the layers are like this: Hardware -> iBoot -> Baseband -> OS So you are just changing the OS, the rest remains the same. When you put in DFU mode ideally you are replacing both Baseband and OS and only iBoot is used to talk to hardware. So you should be able to restore in DFU mode. But just confirm again from another source before proceeding since this is just my understanding. To answer 2nd question, no you cannot unlock, since the 'unlock' itself is in Baseband which controls the iPhone modem hardware and this is untouched. So no by replacing this you cannot unlock.

ds - April 22, 2010 at 9:45am

Just to update, based on reading further on the original thread, some one reported as bricked and the original thread itself has been edited saying it failed on few devices and requires a tethered boot, just so be warned and have a backup option if this is your primary device.

iDsigns - April 21, 2010 at 10:59pm

Thats sick. Can wait till we all can try something like that

ds - April 21, 2010 at 10:54pm

Apple can be happy, since no one Jailbreaks anymore, since most of devices that want to get "freedom" will be on a different OS!!! and iPhone will finally run Adobe Flash!!!

Mike Lochtefeld - April 21, 2010 at 10:46pm

Saw it on digg first, this is so cool