Corellium ‘Project Sandcastle’ runs Android on an iPhone

Krusty · Mar 5, 2020

Debate rages about why you would want to, but the team working to run Android on an iPhone has at least proven that it can.

In a move that will send a shiver down the spines of Apple and Google fanatics alike, some monster who wants to see the world burn has hacked an iPhone to run Android software.

Video of the sacrilegious hack has been posted on Twitter.

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t’s the result of something called Project Sandcastle, carried out by mobile device virtualisation company Corellium.

Corellium calls itself the “first and only platform to offer mobile virtualisation on ARM”.

ARM is the computing architecture that powers most mobile devices and is the same one that both Apple’s processors and many other smartphone chips are built on.

Corellium co-founder David Wang first pulled off the hack about a decade ago, installing Android on the first generation iPhone.

Since then the security researcher and his team have been working on repeating the feat on newer iPhones.

Apple is unsurprisingly not a fan of this.
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/...e/news-story/372e7b3444ebc8fcd137af39fbc6640d

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But running Android on the iPhone still presents multiple challenges.

For one, it isn’t fully featured.

You won’t be able to use the camera or install apps from the Google Play store.

The developers have succeeded in having encrypted messaging app Signal run on the device.

This potentially give security focused users a way to have private conversations that delete themselves when you restart your phone and go back into iOS.

Given Apple is currently suing Corellium over this and other hacks, coupled with the fact that you could potentially brick your device or make it vulnerable by running Android on it, you might want to think twice about doing so.
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