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02-27-2016, 08:01 AM
Microsoft is ditching Android app ports for ******* Phone
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Mobile app developers who wanted to easily port their apps from Android or iOS to ******* 10 devices were in luck when Microsoft (http://mashable.com/category/microsoft/) an**unced it created tools to help with that transition last year. But **w Microsoft is going back and dropping the Android bridge, focusing on just iOS.
In a blog post (https://blogs.*******.com/buildingapps/2016/02/25/an-update-on-the-developer-opportunity-and-*******-10/), Microsoft an**unced that while it has been updating the ******* Bridge for iOS (http://mashable.com/category/ios/), it is dropping the ******* Bridge for Android project with an interesting explanation.
See also: Microsoft may be running the biggest Turing test in history (http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/microsoft-xiaoice-turing-test/)
“We received a lot of feedback that having two Bridge tech**logies to bring code from mobile operating systems to ******* was unnecessary, and the choice between them could be confusing,” wrote Kevin Gallo, director of *******' developer platform. “We have carefully considered this feedback and decided that we would focus our efforts on the ******* Bridge for iOS and make it the single Bridge option for bringing mobile code to all ******* 10 devices, including Xbox and PCs.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/*******-ditching-android/)
More about Android (http://mashable.com/category/android/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), ******* (http://mashable.com/category/*******/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ios (http://mashable.com/category/ios/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Apps Software (http://mashable.com/apps-software/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/oLnMufqi3-4
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Mobile app developers who wanted to easily port their apps from Android or iOS to ******* 10 devices were in luck when Microsoft (http://mashable.com/category/microsoft/) an**unced it created tools to help with that transition last year. But **w Microsoft is going back and dropping the Android bridge, focusing on just iOS.
In a blog post (https://blogs.*******.com/buildingapps/2016/02/25/an-update-on-the-developer-opportunity-and-*******-10/), Microsoft an**unced that while it has been updating the ******* Bridge for iOS (http://mashable.com/category/ios/), it is dropping the ******* Bridge for Android project with an interesting explanation.
See also: Microsoft may be running the biggest Turing test in history (http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/microsoft-xiaoice-turing-test/)
“We received a lot of feedback that having two Bridge tech**logies to bring code from mobile operating systems to ******* was unnecessary, and the choice between them could be confusing,” wrote Kevin Gallo, director of *******' developer platform. “We have carefully considered this feedback and decided that we would focus our efforts on the ******* Bridge for iOS and make it the single Bridge option for bringing mobile code to all ******* 10 devices, including Xbox and PCs.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/*******-ditching-android/)
More about Android (http://mashable.com/category/android/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), ******* (http://mashable.com/category/*******/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ios (http://mashable.com/category/ios/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Apps Software (http://mashable.com/apps-software/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/oLnMufqi3-4