Bridges to the Magickal Faerie Land of Windows 10 Hannes Nel (@hannesn) M263

Citizens of the Windows 10 Kingdom

ALL OF THE APPSWindows 10 for

Agenda

Surveying the landscapeWalking some mobile bridgesPicking the right oneConsider some other options

Whatever kingdom you’re from

Desktop

Mobile

XboxIoT

Holographic

Surface Hub

Universal Windows Platform

Middleware Platforms

Middleware Partners (e.g., Xamarin)

Game Engine Partners (e.g., Unity)

Windows Platform

Universal Windows 8 Apps (C++/C#/JS)

Universal Windows 10 Apps (C++/C#/JS)

Project Centennial (Classic Apps)

Web Platform

Microsoft Edge HTML Engine

Cordova Tooling (HTML/JS)

Hosted Web Apps (HTML/JS)

Other Mobile Platforms

Project Astoria (Java/C++)

Project Islandwood (Objective C/C++)

Other Mobile Platforms

Astoria

• Java / C++ Code

• Use Android IDE

• High code reuse

• Low flexibility

Islandwood

• Objective C Code

• Use Visual Studio

• Medium-high code reuse

• High flexibility

Astoria

How it worksB

uild Open in

Android StudioReplace Google Play references

Deplo

y Upload APK to storeRepackaged as AppX

Run Download

from storeAndroid subsystem

Cloud ServicesMicrosoft Services

AppInsights

MS Ads

In-app Purchases

Windows Notification Service

Xbox Live Services

Bing Maps

Windows Location services

…

• Project Astoria SDK in Java

• Use Microsoft services with minimal code change

• Get Started in Dev Center

Platform Redirection

APPX

APK

“PROJECT ASTORIA” SUBSYSTEM

WINDOWS

• File system• Contacts, photos,…• Sensors• Camera• Hardware accelerated graphics

& Direct X• Networking/sockets• Application lifecycle• Resource management• Background execution model• Security model

Demo

Islandwood

How it worksB

uild Import in

Visual StudioCompile with shims

Dep

loy Upload AppX to store

Ru

n Download from storeNative Windows

The moving parts

Clang Compiler

iOs Runtime & Libraries

Windows Projection

s

XAML Composito

r

Demo

So many* choices!?*three

Know the limitations

Consider your long

term strategy

Consider your

resources

Centennial

Bringing WPF to a store near you

Full API access

Sandboxed

deployment

Store distributio

n

Some limitations

Westminster

Web… Windows… What’s the difference?

Full Windows Runtime access

Evergreen app logic

Offline content

“Augment” instead of “Replace”

Demo

Whatever kingdom you’re from

Desktop

Mobile

XboxIoT

Holographic

Surface Hub

Universal Windows Platform

Middleware Platforms

Middleware Partners (e.g., Xamarin)

Game Engine Partners (e.g., Unity)

Windows Platform

Universal Windows 8 Apps (C++/C#/JS)

Universal Windows 10 Apps (C++/C#/JS)

Project Centennial (Classic Apps)

Web Platform

Microsoft Edge HTML Engine

Cordova Tooling (HTML/JS)

Hosted Web Apps (HTML/JS)

Other Mobile Platforms

Project Astoria (Java/C++)

Project Islandwood (Objective C/C++)

ALL OF THE APPSWindows 10 for

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