Windows Phone

[cooperlegend]

So as a big lover of B4A and B4i I have to ask the question...

Any plans to do B4WP in the near future to out do Xamarin ?

B4X is so much easier than using Microsoft's tools.

I would be great to have the complete set Android, iOS and Window Phone.

 

[Roycefer]

No need, MS has done all the hard work for us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_Mobile#Windows_Bridge_for_iOS_and_Android

 

[cooperlegend]

Wow. That is great news. I will look into this more tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up

 

[Erel]

No need, MS has done all the hard work for us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_Mobile#Windows_Bridge_for_iOS_and_Android

I'm pretty sure that it will not work, or at least not work good enough: http://betanews.com/2015/11/16/forget-about-running-android-apps-on-windows-10-mobile/

 

[cooperlegend]

According to each article, the iOS version is available but the Android APK version is on hold.
Erel, do you know if the B4i version I have coded could be converted using this MS Bridge?
Can the Android version still be converted using the java code (rather than the running the APK method) ?

 

[Erel]

Erel, do you know if the B4i version I have coded could be converted using this MS Bridge?

Haven't tried it. B4i creates regular iOS apps so theoretically it should work (similar to what I wrote above, my personal guess is that it will not be very useful).

Can the Android version still be converted using the java code (rather than the running the APK method) ?

No. Your code depends on Android specific APIs. I'm also not sure that Java is supported at all. It is most probably not supported.

For now Windows Phone is not very relevant: http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp

It might gain more traction with the release of Windows Mobile 10.

 

[wonder]

I don't get it, Chrome's Arc Welder runs my apps perfectly fine at 60fps on both Win7 32-bit, and Win10 64bit architectures.
If Google can do it, why is it so hard for Microsoft? Just add an Android built-in emulator to the Windows OS family.

 

[Roycefer]

The Arc Welder team can probably walk down the hall and talk to the Android team. I doubt the Android team would even answer MS's calls, if MS ever called them.

If I know MS, they're probably trying to make their Android Bridge run inside the .NET runtime. That's a runtime within a runtime. Inception.