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[ndnninja15]

Today I worked on getting my java code to work on the PC since I made the bulk of the game to run on Android. I'm just wondering if anyone has ported their game to iOS and how they went about doing that. I know that many game engines will do this but I wrote my own little library.

[WarpQueen]

So, when you say PC, you mean Mac? I tend to read it as Windows.
Anyway, if you are on android you are not using directX, and that's a good start, because that is usually the hardest part of a conversion.
If you are doing anything on Mac, you need to learn Objective C, no way around it really, unless you are using an engine that does the conversion for you.

If you think Unity is a bit heavy-weight, there are others you can look into too, if that's an option. Like Defold.

[Columbo]

I think most people who are using their own libraries/engine and want multiplatform support tend to use c++ or c for the vast majority of their code, and use only an absolute minimum of Objective-C/Java/Whatever else necessary.

If you have a java codebase and you want it to work on iOS, then you might need to look for fairly niche solutions. There's a few suggestions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1193524/can-we-run-java-applictions-on-iphone

[JohnsyJohnsy]

Yeah, useless info for your current question (Java -> IOS), but I tend to just use C and SDL2 and OpenGL(es)  it works great for multiplatform stuff, ios, android, windows, mac, linux. I only have as little as possible objC code.

so yes what Columbo said.

[ndnninja15]

Thanks for the tip Columbo, does make more sense to use c++ for multi platform support.