Opinion – Reportedly, Microsoft is investigating whether it is possible to bring Android apps to Windows 10. Even if that succeed technically, then I recommend them off strongly.
The rumors that Microsoft allows Windows 10 will make Android apps emulate go some time, but since last week Neowin based on sources at Microsoft wrote that internally really experimented with the idea, it really seems to happen. Microsoft Please, do not do
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The idea of Android apps in Windows is something to be said. The offer of the Windows Store will continue both in quality and quantity far behind that of Apple (App Store) and Google / Android (Google Play) and addition of Android apps can give the portfolio a boost. But independently or Android apps within Windows 10 may be in the mobile and / or desktop edition of the operating system, it’s just a foolish plan. Here are four reasons for this.
1. Technically, the challenge is enormous
Android to allow other platforms running happening for much longer. So BlueStacks spent some years back a (buggy) Android emulator for Windows and did bios maker American Megatrends early this year with DUOS-M a better effort. Fact remains: full hardware support remains a challenge so you can never be 100 percent guarantee that apps like function intended
BlackBerry can talk about it.. In the BlackBerry 10 operating system introduced the Canadian manufacturer Android emulation, but even more than three years after its introduction there remain many restrictions and issues exist, they give themselves frankly. Native Android is just a difficult story to a non-Android device.
2. It reduces the incentive to native to develop Windows
If Microsoft allows users to install Android apps on Windows, it thus gives a signal to developers on the platform does not own is interesting enough to bring out software. Especially if Microsoft has technically manages .apk’s flawlessly run, increase the company allows only the target audience for Android developers and improves nothing to the appeal of the Windows platform and the Windows Store.
3. Windows devices differ greatly from Android devices
Suppose we succeed in the functionality of Android completely transfer to an emulation platform within Windows, then Microsoft is the fact that lack most PCs and laptops a GPS chip, a touch screen, an NFC reader, enzvoorts. Moreover scales of Android apps from an Android smartphone already not feeling up to an Android tablet, let alone that they use still nice to be on a 22 “or 24″ monitor.
Anyway, if Microsoft emulation limited to Windows Phone / Windows Mobile 10 and 100 percent compatibility guarantees, then have Android apps in Windows any chance of success. Yet it remains the problem of overhead by emulation exist: performance will never be as good as on a real Android device that runs only the Google operating system and nothing else
4.. Viruses and malware come back into play
This is not Microsoft, but Google / Android recent years, the most interesting platform for malware authors has become, thanks to the strong focus on Microsoft security, the lack of focused on it at Google and the rapidly growing popularity of Android devices. Also in the official Google Play store bursts of apps with a dubious reputation.
Just as Microsoft’s own street has swept the Android emulation can be a Trojan horse winning, especially if the Android apps within Windows also access the OS and Windows applications. Technically there is to cover a lot through sandboxes and restrictions in the APIs, but everyone knows that a fully effective system is a utopia. I hope that Microsoft is not so stupid in this way Windows again to leave a cyber paradise be.
Conclusion
In short, I hope Microsoft abandons this idea. After self with BlueStacks and Duos-M experiments have, I can conclude for myself that Android apps on a PC running is nice, but the experience of working on an Android device nowhere near approaching. Let alone daily with serious business Android apps within a Windows environment would like to work.
The only way I see that Microsoft could reap the benefits of Android by Android dual boot on Lumia and Windows Phone devices make possible. Thereby rotating the two OSes in its own protected environment and perform the apps as they are supposed to do. But it has the disadvantage that 1) most users are waiting here and not in practice continue to use one OS instead of two, and 2) they might prefer Android over Microsoft gets even more Windows users and developers lost.
Microsoft, do what you do and concentrate mostly on your own platform. The vision that developed apps for Windows with the same core on both PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones and the Xbox can turn, seems sufficiently attractive for years to build a robust application portfolio.
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