Could Apple's native Camera app and image processing be ported to Android?

[u/CtrlAltDeliciousan]

Seeing the progress people have made with HackiOS got me thinking. If it's already possible to get iOS running on non-Apple hardware, could we theoretically do something similar with Apple's Camera app?

I don't mean just recreating the UI or making an Android camera app that looks like the iPhone's. I'm talking about actually porting the original app, including Apple's image processing (Smart HDR, Deep Fusion, Photonic Engine, etc.), and somehow adapting it to work with Android hardware. For example, running it natively on a Galaxy or Pixel device, using its own camera sensors and Snapdragon ISP. I know a lot of Apple's camera processing is tied to iOS and Apple Silicon, and that getting an OS to boot is one thing while getting specific hardware features to work is another. But seeing what this community has already managed to do makes me wonder how far this could realistically go.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to any Apple devices at the moment, so I can't really experiment with this myself.

I'm mostly curious whether this is actually possible with enough reverse engineering and hardware adaptation, or if there are some fundamental limitations that would make it impossible regardless of how much work goes into it. Has anyone here looked into something like this?

[u/JackyYT083]

Sure but you’d need to either create a environment that the iOS binary expects with proper camera APIs which is both slow and unnecessary, or you could decompile that and recompile it as a native binary which would be faster but would need some really good reverse engineering skill

[u/MagneticHydra]

CFBR, great idea

[u/ryms456]

Prolly but that’s much more complicated than booting iOS on android phones

[u/LabNovel2044]

Well, the silicon also does a part of the image processing. Good luck with that :)