Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel

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sheepscreek•20m ago

Madness. I love it.

Grombobulous•14m ago

My “AI is ending the world” feelings are definitely going in another direction in the past few weeks with the reverse engineering, jailbreaking, and porting scene.

Microsoft, Google, Oracle, etc, just invested all their money into a technology that will make their software worthless. As Ronald McDonald once said, I’m lovin’ it.

add-sub-mul-div•4m ago

Was your prior feeling about AI based on the sum total of its negative externalities for society, or its not having produced enough gimmick software projects?

jgbuddy•19m ago

amazing, but who is OO SEX GANG

freedomben•11m ago

my guess is a lot of Java people who refuse to get on the functional train

hollowonepl•17m ago

Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?

gruez•7m ago

No, because iPhones still have locked bootloader, and on an Android phone this Frankenstein of an OS is likely to have worse security than just grapheneos.

nullpoint420•16m ago

I'm doing the same thing with my Oneplus 6T, I have Claude piloting my phone over adb booting new candidate kernels and checking the results

What a time to be alive!

torben-friis•15m ago

I wonder, why 16.5? (That would be 2023's versión).

Not to detract from how awesome this is, just curious.

westurner•9m ago

Does this make it possible to quality control iOS apps without MacOS runners with xcodebuild in CI like GitHub Actions?

sanid•8m ago

This is going to be fun. There are already replica phones for the flagship phones that are running a shitty android version that has been customized to look like iOS. People need to tripple check now when buying older used iPhone models.

gruez•5m ago

>Does not work (yet):

>App Store content and Apple ID sign-in (no Secure Enclave; FairPlay daemon exits)

That seems like a huge roadblock, even if were able to resolve all the driver/OS issues.

embedding-shape•6m ago

What, no, why?! Joking but kind of also not, Apple is terrible at software, amazing at hardware, what the people (me) want is the opposite, Android running on Apple hardware :)

aghuang•2m ago

I found the website to be quite nauseating to look at, so I decided to use the GitHub link instead.

But it's quite impressive that it works on QEMU, POCO X5 Pro 5G and some Xiaomi devices too.

Website is here: https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en

Source Code: https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel

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