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Given that IDEs like Flash are able to cross-compile the same code into device native code, I was wondering if it’s even conceivably possible to write an Android app that would run iPhone applications, or vice versa? And if so, what would that entail?
Conceivably possible? Sure. You’d be writing an emulator for iOS. You can look at any other emulator in order to see roughly what that would entail. Reasonably possible though? If you had to ask this question, then highly unlikely for you. You’d have to either rewrite the whole of iOS on top of Android or emulate the actual hardware and try to get a dump of an iOS image (no doubt breaking the EULA). You’d also have many side issues to think about like performance and compatibility. If it were easy, someone would have done it already by now. It’s a monstrous amount of work.