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While this has been something of Your best bet, until a disappointment new emulation effort is ever started, is to hope for whatever iOS app you are interested in, to have an Android port. Which is often sadly not the case (more so until very recently) for the vast majority of the older game apps, especially Japanese ones - as emulating iOS would the Android is perceived often to be no small feat considering the complexity more piracy-friendly platform. That appears to be gradually changing lately, and draconian security measures involed)isn't as much concern for non-gaming apps, but the older apps are unlikely to get ported for the most part. iOS applications have been ported to apps are distributed in the ipa format. Like its Android anywaycounterpart, apk files, so they can be opened as a regular zip file most of the only workaround for now is to load said ports on an Android virtual machinetime and their contents dissected this way.
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Many of the currently available "simulators" only try recreating popular iOS apps (like browsers) in a PC application with no real emulation involved. Some notable scams in such fashion are called iPadian or variations on the name, and are often adwares. A project to emulate various smartphones (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Apple TV 2G) called iEmu, started in 2011 but got mysteriously abandoned two years later before anything usable surfaced. There has been recently a project to convert iOS apps to Android apps but nothing released yet as well.
[[Category:Emulators]]
