Microsoft Windows 10 will allow for Android apps

Microsoft is determined to stay relevant in a world that is run almost completely by Android and iOS devices, with over 96% of the mobile market under their combined belt. That unfortunately only leaves about 4% for Microsoft and other manufacturers Well, Microsoft is not one throw the towel and give up, as today they have announced that they will be releasing some new tools that will help developers port over their existing apps for Android and iOS with as little work as possible.

Android developers will be given the ability to use Java and C++ code on Windows 10, so they won’t have to rewrite their entire apps code from the ground up to get it to work on Windows 10. iOS developers will be able to continue to use their existing Objective-C code, so they will have a little less of a hard time. All welcome addition for those few that may have been dying to port their apps over to Windows from either platform.

Microsoft is hoping that by easily allowing developers from both rival competitors to easy port their code over to Windows, they will be more willing to do so, since they will no longer be looking at having to either rewrite the entire apps code or have to learn a complete new programming langue to start development on Windows.

While this idea, in theory, sounds like it could be a great boon for Windows, reality is that there will likely not be many devs that are going to want to make the move over, no matter how easy the move may be. With Android and iOS holding such a major share of the mobile market, it would make more sense for devices to instead focus on improving their apps on their current platform instead of wasting resources to port it over to Windows.

Only time will tell of course as to whether this move will indeed help propel Microsoft back to the forefront of the mobile industry.

Source: The Verge, Digital Trends 

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