Mobile Distillery Promises Easy Migration of iPhone Apps
- Monday, December 15th, 2008
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Mobile Distillery, which delivers software solutions for mobile application production and testing services, has announced tools and processes that enable quick and easy migration of iPhone applications to Java ME phones and other platforms such as BREW and Windows Mobile, (managed through the Innaworks partnership, and Android.
Since the launch of the iPhone 3G in July, there have been more than 300 million downloads of the 10,000 applications available on the Apple App Store. Taking advantage of its two award-winning software solutions, Alembic and Celsius, Mobile Distillery enables companies to build on the success of their iPhone application and easily migrate it to other devices that share the iPhones multimedia and connectivity features. This means that companies can quickly and effectively reach the other 80% of Smartphone users who dont have an iPhone, as well as potentially reaching out to the billions of subscribers using mid-range and low-end handsets.
Using itrs Alembic knowledge database, which combines more than 1,300 fully tested characteristics, behaviors and performances of more than 1,000 handsets worldwide, Mobile Distillery says it can easily measure and predict the compatibility of an iPhone application in advance.
And with Celsius, Mobile Distillerys automated development and porting suite, companies can turn the market potential for the application defined by Alembic into reality. Celsius enables the application to be ported across specific Java ME, Android, BREW and Windows Mobile handsets using just one set of source code. All the resources of the iPhone application, including text, images, animations and sounds, are managed and optimised within Celsius, combining streamlined processes and automated resource management tools.

