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→How It Works
When emulator is started, BlackThunder backend will first load up VirtualBox, which load up the Hackintosh image. Such image contain a copy of Xcode that will be started and also load built-in iOS simulator (a.k.a "Xcode simulator") once the macOS in the image is booted up, hence the double-layer virtualization is set up. All graphics and sounds from the Xcode simulator will be send to BlackThunder frontend, which send user inputs to backend.
Xcode simulator can only run x86-based apps, while ARM-based apps can't, so a "conversion", or to say, decompiling, is needed. This is done beforehand by BlackThunder, and that is why users cannot add their own apps. How decompiling is done is unknown, due to it's on the server side and users cannot interfere with this process. All iOS apps in "BlackThunder App Store" are actually unzipped x86 IPA packages. These packages will be injected into the Xcode simulator in the VirtualBox disk image and executebe executed within.
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