Spark the future.

Lewis Benge

Bring your code to Windows

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Spark the future.

• Surveying the landscape• Walking some mobile

bridges• Picking the right one• Consider some other

options

Agenda

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 – Android Bridge

Windows does the heavy lifting for youWe translate and redirect Android concepts to Windows concepts

User experience Cloud services Platform

Notifications

SharingFile

systemCamera

• Acquisition• Input and interaction• App-to-app interactions• Windowing &

navigation• Notifications and live

tiles• …

• In-App Purchases• Ads• Maps• Game Services• Analytics• Notification service• …

• File system• Contacts, photos,

…• Sensors• Camera• Hardware

accelerated graphics & Direct X

• …

How it worksB

uild Open in

Android Studio

Replace Google

Play references

Deplo

y Upload APK to store

Repackaged as AppX

Run Download

from storeAndroid subsyste

m

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 – iOS Bridge

How it worksB

uild Import in

Visual Studio

Compile with

shimsD

ep

loy Upload AppX to

store

Ru

n Download from store

Native Windows

The moving parts

Clang Compiler

iOS Runtime & Libraries

Windows Projections

XAML Composito

r

Tooling

Integrated Visual Studio Development

Xcode projects imported to Visual Studio

Integrated language support: syntax highlighting, autocomplete

Full debugging: breakpoints, stack traces, …

Universal API Interop

Windows does the heavy lifting for you

We translate and redirect iOS concepts to Windows concepts

User experience Cloud services Platform

Notifications

Sharing File system

Camera

Backed by Windows Notificationsand appear in Action Center

StoreKit bridged to WindowsStore Transactions; very few code

changes required

FileSystem paths are mapped;don’t need to reorganize your

project/assets

In-App Purchas

e

Proven compatibility

Candy Crush Saga: Brought to Windows Phone with very few code changes

Interop used for native integration In-App Purchase Local Notifications

Demo

What’s the right choice?

Know the limitations

Consider your long

term strategy

Consider your

resources

Centennial- WPF/Win32

Bringing WPF to a store near you

Full API access

Sandboxed

deployment

Store distributio

n

Some limitations

Test

Update

Convert AppXMSI

Conversion

Westminster - Web

Web vs Windows

Full Windows Runtime access

Evergreen app logic

Offline content

“Augment” instead of “Replace”

Demo

What’s the right choice?

Know the limitations

Consider your long

term strategy

Consider your

resources

Extending the Web to Windows

if (typeof Windows !== 'undefined' && typeof Windows.UI !== 'undefined' && typeof Windows.UI.Notifications !== 'undefined'){

//Call Windows.UI.Notifications }

Whatever code you’re in

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++)

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