Microsoft Brings iOS and Android Apps to Windows 10

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Posted April 29, 2015 at 6:44pm by Shalom Levytam

Microsoft has announced new SDKs that allow developers to easily bring iOS and Android apps to Windows 10.

Today, we announced four new SDKs, enabling developers to start with an existing code base, integrate with the Universal Windows Platform capabilities, and then distribute their new application through the Windows Store to the one billion Windows 10 devices.

The code bases enabled by these SDKs are:
● Web sites
● .NET and Win32
● Android Java/C++
● iOS Objective C

The company announced that Adobe plans to bring its Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements apps to the Windows Store, using the SDK for Win32 applications and that King has already used the Objective C SDK to bring Candy Crush Saga to Windows Phone.

If bringing iOS apps to Windows Phone is really as easy as Microsoft suggests, it could be a big help to its platform which has struggled to gain developer support.

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wjs700 - May 2, 2015 at 3:54am

Ohh, windows 10 is full of surprises, isn't it?

SayingWhatEveryonesThinking - April 30, 2015 at 4:09am

Microsoft is desperate and scrambling. If they didn't have so much money it would be sad.

SayingWhatEveryonesThinking - May 1, 2015 at 4:08am

I don't think anyone can say Apple is "desperate" or "scrambling" since they're the biggest company in history. Coming up with a new product is innovative, as they've been with the Mac, iPhone and iPad. We wouldn't have Microsoft Windows without the Mac, just like you wouldn't have your Android phone or tablet if it wasn't for Apple. There's something about buying a quality product vs buying a cheap knockoff - maybe you've never experienced that feeling. Windows 8 was a radical effort to be different from Apple and they failed miserably. Now they're caving in almost completely. I won't be buying the Apple Watch until it becomes more mature, but I certainly don't look forward to Microsoft's new efforts. In the meantime, enjoy your tech - originally invented by, and stolen from, Apple.

gamerscul9870 - May 1, 2015 at 11:08am

Always invented. The stolen thing isn't as it seems. Look at the Nokia n1 tablet that resembles iPad Air.

Muhammad Noman - April 29, 2015 at 7:03pm

if this will really happen. i am never going to buy Apple or Android device. i will always have a windows phone and i am already using a windows phone

gamerscul9870 - April 29, 2015 at 9:52pm

And have to deal with all those texture less tiles, the personal assistant that doesn't do good compared to Siri and Google now, the limited number of apps that normally appear elsewhere, and the camera with too many megapixels to hog the memory? Not to mention sharp edges around the front phone and how breakable it is.

Muhammad Noman - May 1, 2015 at 9:42am

Microsoft Project Astoria see for yourself the project is already here

odedoo1 - April 29, 2015 at 6:53pm

Wow that is really big and surprising news, it will make everything easy to hack! I wonder how long it will take for Apple to take Microsoft to curt.

Darius - April 29, 2015 at 6:49pm

It seems that Windows 10 and Windows Phone 10 will have more apps if developers will migrate their apps on the OS.