Another project that focuses on Java to Objective-C is http://xmlvm.org.
XMLVM also offers an Android compatibility layer, including some UI support.
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> In XMLVM, byte code-based programs are represented as XML documents. This allows manipulation and translation of XMLVM-based programs using advanced XML technologies such as XSLT, XQuery, and XPath.
I don't even...
Oh, come on. While I dislike XML as much as anyone, I can definitely see the advantages of representing an AST as XML and manipulating using a functional language (e.g. XSLT). I think the Stratego languages also do something similar, and they seemed to be quite effective last time I checked.
XML isn't a hipster technology though! How can I be a good hacker if I can't be a hipster too?
Here's another recent effort, targeting C++, but with the same goal of getting Java on iOS: https://github.com/badlogic/jack