The strategy could help though, if Microsoft through other means makes the platform an attractive target. Another factor is that supporting an additional platform never comes for free there is admin and support to consider. The reasons are various, but I would guess part of the problem is that ease of porting code does not make an unimportant platform important. Both platforms make it easy to port Android apps (Amazon Fire is actually a version of Android), yet the apps available in the respective app stores are still far short of what you can get for Google Android. Will it work? The Amazon Fire and the Blackberry 10 precedents are not encouraging. There are apparently ways to add Windows-specific features if you want your ported app to work properly with the platform. The goal then is to make it easier for developers to port their code, and also perhaps to raise the quality of Windows mobile apps by enabling code sharing with the more important platforms. Lack of apps make the platforms less attractive so the situation does not improve. Worse, many simply ignore the platforms as too small to bother with. Microsoft is trying to fix the “app gap”, the fact that both Windows Store and Windows Phone Store (which are merging) have a poor selection of apps compared to iOS or Android.
Is the company now removing any incentive to code dedicated Windows apps that will make the most of the platform?ĭetails of the new capabilities are scant though we will no doubt get more details as the event progresses. That is partly because this is the wrong crown these are the Windows faithful who would rather code in C#.Īnother factor is that those who want Microsoft’s platform to succeed will have mixed feelings. This is big news, but oddly the Build attendees were more excited by the HoloLens section of the keynote (3D virtual reality) than by the iOS/Android compatibility.
The Android compatibility had been widely rumoured, but the Objective C support not so much.
Microsoft has announced the ability to compile Windows 10 apps written in Java or C++ for Android, or in Objective C for iOS, at its Build developer conference here in San Francisco.
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