A notorious problem given by Android and iOS‘ dominance in the mobile space is the lack of interest developers have in putting their effort into less successful and widely adopted platforms such as Windows Phone. However,in its grand method, Microsoft announced compatibility of apps between the desktop and mobile versions of Windows 10 under the “Universal Windows Platform” umbrella.
To encourage devs, or the Redmond giant also worked on some porting tools,the so called Windows ‘bridges’, namely “Project Islandwood” and “Project Astoria – for porting from iOS and Android respectively – which after a troubled beginning are seeing their roads separating, or with the former going forward and Astoria officially shutting down as of nowadays,after a period of apparent hiatus. (more…)
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Source: 9to5google.com