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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
#42It'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…
I'm confused now. I didn't think this announcement was to allow apks install on Windows 10. Simple ask: Will you be able to download the Amazon App Store apk from the handset's browser, install, and run the app?
Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
Maybe. But, for me, they did too much wrong for too long to ever be able to repair that in my lifetime..
Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think the point of this is to port existing apps. Microsoft has a lot of different technologies (like .NET with Xamarin) to build multiplatform apps going forward. But this helps Microsoft catch up to Android and iOS in terms of app availability now.
Those technologies have been available for a while, now. If a company hasn't been using them already, why would they start now?
Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
#45It'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…
I'm confused now. I didn't think this announcement was to allow apks install on Windows 10. Simple ask: Will you be able to download the Amazon App Store apk from the handset's browser, install, and run the app?
No it seems like a developer have to integrate with Project Astoria some how to replace the Google APIs with the Microsoft ones and then submit the app to the store. I doubt end users will have access to that capability.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/29/mic...
Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
#46I like how the graphic has "Web" and ".NET/Win32" in the wrong lanes, sending you to a sure death in the face of massive oncoming Android and iOS traffic as you try to cross that bridge to a cross-platform nirvana.
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#47This 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.
>but I want a Windows phone
Why?
Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
#48What I read in the article is the following:
"Developers will also be able to recycle their Objective-C apps for iOS using new tools in Visual Studio."
Notice "... tools in Visual Studio".
To me this sounds more like conversion/porting tools, not so much like support for compiling ObjC and a runtime. Is there information elsewhere that sheds more light on this?
Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
#49It'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…
A windows universal app target for libgdx would indeed be awesome
This is gonna happen as soon as the tools are publically available :)
Re: Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
#50I wonder if Google will realize it's now going to be forced to push "Android laptops" for "native performance" on the market instead of doing it on top of Chrome OS (like Microsoft is doing here) which is a battle it's going to lose. Android laptops = all 1.5 million apps work by default (although might have some UI issues at first, depending how Google implements them - I think they should just put them in "windows"…
My guess is that they'll just add Chrome (through ARC) as an install target in the play store once ARC has been available for a bit longer.