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One of the initiatives that Microsoft’s relative scarcity of apps for Windows Mobile 10 wanted to go, seems to suffer shipwreck

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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was working on an emulator that could run Android apps on Windows 10 Mobile. This would mobiles Windows Mobile are to pull out of their biggest shortcoming: the lack of good apps. App developers have in fact a clear preference for Android – because of the numbers – and for iOS because of the propensity of Apple customers.

The project in which the emulator was developed project Astoria, was announced as last April. Lately, however, it was rather quiet around the project. The forums around Astoria project was no more information exchanged since September. And in recent versions of Windows Mobile 10 lacked the Android subsystem entirely. A spokesman for Microsft confirmed to Re / code that the project Astoria would be unable to continue as planned. But that does not affect Microsoft’s efforts to offer developers tools they can put their apps on the Windows platform, force, he added.

The reason for the discontinuation of work on the emulator is not mentioned. It is based on Microsoft’s answer did not completely rule out that the project is later taken in hand. But the latter seems unlikely if you look at reasons mentioned in circles of commentators. Thus, it is mentioned that the threat of Android emulator developers of native apps for Windows Mobile 10 was wary due to the expected avalanche of competing apps. Others point to legal pitfalls when developing an emulator; Before you know it, you’re involved in an intellectual property lawsuit with the developers of Android apps. Technical problems are also called: the Android subsystem would have the tendency to make ineradicable Windows 10 Mobile increasingly slower with time. The effort was called to Astoria reportedly worked continuously 60 to 80 men.

Other projects on the Windows App Store will get better filled seem to find common passage. This involves project Westminster, a toolset for transferring web apps to Windows 10 Mobile, the porting of classic Win32 apps through project Centennial and – as most far-reaching – Project Island Wood, which helps developers iOS apps to Windows 10 Mobile transfer. Wood Island project is incidentally was also less ambitious than Astoria. Island Wood does not emulator, but tools to quickly customize the app to the Windows Mobile-10 environment and its interface. Unlike Astoria was trying to achieve, users of the tools of Wood Island must recompile their apps even before they are usable on Windows 10 Mobile. Wood Island to work reportedly five men.