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Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

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Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

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Post by bargl »

This is a brilliant move to make Windows 10 much more relevant. I really like some of my Android apps, but I want a Windows phone. Hopefully this will encourage apps like Automatic to move to Windows phone.

I also wonder if this will affect Xamarin in a negative way.

Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

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Post by sremani »

It is inevitable, they are going where the apps are. Android apps will run in isolated mode on Windows 10 and you can develop Andriod apps using VS. iOS was a surprise but that would make porting more apps easier. I hope this would finally give the enough apps for Windows phone.

Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

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Post by plorkyeran »

chenzhekl wrote: post #4

Maybe we could add in the title the support for objective-c compilation. It's really important.

I'd guess that obj-c compilation is just done with clang (as they're already using clang for Android). The fact that they've apparently reimplemented UIKit/Foundation/etc. is the more surprising part to me.

Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

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Post by M8 »

bargl wrote: post #2

This is a brilliant move to make Windows 10 much more relevant. I really like some of my Android apps, but I want a Windows phone. Hopefully this will encourage apps like Automatic to move to Windows phone. I also wonder if this will affect Xamarin in a negative way.

Single modern language is still a strong selling point for Xamarin.

Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

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Post by melling »

plorkyeran wrote: post #6
chenzhekl wrote: post #4

Maybe we could add in the title the support for objective-c compilation. It's really important.

I'd guess that obj-c compilation is just done with clang (as they're already using clang for Android). The fact that they've apparently reimplemented UIKit/Foundation/etc. is the more surprising part to me.

Unfortunately, many developers are going to be writing code in Swift. Xcode and Swift are baked and there's plenty of Swift information (e.g. http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html)

At this point, it's probably not worth writing in ObjC just to be compatible with Windows.

Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

This is amazing. I'm very curious how it works under the hood with the Android and iOS platforms. It wouldn't surprise me if it gets translated into MSIL. That's how I would do it at least.

Also curious what the limitations are. If this works as advertised the Windows Mobile store could go from mediocre to pretty awesome as long as they get tailored for the platform.

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