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

Post by cwyers » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

magicalist wrote: post #29

cwyers wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't the strategy Blackberry tried. This is about making code portable, not compiled binaries.

Can you explain how that would help? Also, it appears that it is indeed about allowing compiled binaries to run unmodified. > Specifically, Windows Mobile (and yes, that's now officially the name for Windows on phones and sub-8 inch tablets) will include an Android runtime layer that'll let them run existing Android apps (both Java and C++) unmodified.... Astoria will in principle work with any old APK, without requi…

Post by jjuhl » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:09 PM UTC

0xFFC wrote: post #32

jjuhl wrote: post #26

If this makes more people ignore Windows phone as a platform and just develop Android apps I'm all for it. Anything that hurts MS and their platforms gets a plus in my book. This looks like a nice step in the right (non-ms) direction.

As GNU lover I cannot understand this much of hate toward Microsoft , Why ? Microsoft is the only not spying on you , Google and NSA and every other big name does too.So if you want blame someone there is more name's applicable to blame ( like NSA , Government , Google and etc ) to blame than Microsoft.

Post by bkovacic » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:11 PM UTC

mkozlows wrote: post #22

This is the same strategy Blackberry tried, more or less, and I'm skeptical that it'll work out any better for Microsoft. It's nice enough in the short term, maybe -- Windows Phone users can get some subset of quickly-ported things -- but in the long-term it seems to doom Windows Phone to second-class status; why would you write a real, native Windows Phone app when you can just do a quick half-assed port of your And…

Post by codeulike » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:21 PM UTC

badlogic wrote: post #36

It's weird that this isn't the biggest news out of all the announcements today. Seems like an Electron fork is more interesting. Having Android APKs work unmodified (minus Google APIs) is pretty neat, but has been done before (BB, Jola). The real interesting part is the the Objective-C toolchain. Seems like they have an emulation layer for UIKit, Foundation and other frameworks. Probably hard for them to keep up with…

Post by tedunangst » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

0xFFC wrote: post #32

jjuhl wrote: post #26

If this makes more people ignore Windows phone as a platform and just develop Android apps I'm all for it. Anything that hurts MS and their platforms gets a plus in my book. This looks like a nice step in the right (non-ms) direction.

As GNU lover I cannot understand this much of hate toward Microsoft , Why ? Microsoft is the only not spying on you , Google and NSA and every other big name does too.So if you want blame someone there is more name's applicable to blame ( like NSA , Government , Google and etc ) to blame than Microsoft.