Windows 10: Less than 5 minutes to convert a game with the bridge iOS

The Windows Store is in the texture and the average quality of the apps it contains one of the weaknesses that with allow Windows 10 Mobile to compete on equal terms with the competition weapons. Microsoft is aware of that fact, has prepared special tools that allow developers to greatly accelerate the production of new titles. The basic idea is to allow the developer to convert without too much difficulty the games and apps developed for different mediating special bridge platforms. Project Islandwood, specifically, is for developers of iOS titles, with a few steps, they are able to reuse the work previously carried out realizing the Windows 10 version of the game or app.

The effectiveness of the method much has been said in recent months, but the direct testimony of a developer who has used the bridge Project Islandwood is undoubtedly more eloquent than any work description. Specifically, David Burela, carried out the runner porting iOS game Canabalt for converting it into an app for Universal Windows Platform Windows 10 - as such can be used on both Windows 10 Mobile smartphone, with both Windows PC and tablet 10. Starting from premise that it was easy to get hold of Canabalt source code, published by the author on Github, took only a little less than five minutes to complete the conversion task. To document the company, Burela has recorded and shared the video that is provided below:

Given the speed of the tool use, is not out of place to ask for what reasons the developers, in some cases, are so refractory to accommodate the demands of users in Windows 10 / Windows 10 Mobile about the new app. The reasons, of course, are not primarily technical, but relate to, among other things, the earnings prospects offered by the Windows Store. especially valid considerations considering mobile declination of the Windows 10 operating system (desktop never really perceives a real shortage of apps thanks to its compatibility with x86 applications).

Faced with an installed base of Windows 10 Mobile smartphone not as wide, the development of apps and games for that platform may appear less advantageous (to what you then have to add more technical evaluations related to the same operation of the Store and available instruments of developers). It is true that, despite all the hesitations of the case, once so reduced to make the app or game conversion seems an acceptable price to expand the distribution channels of their apps.

Recently, there have been initiatives like WhishAppList through which developers can know which apps are most desired by Windows 10. It would be enough users to use the bridge Project Islandwood to satisfy the demands, as the most desired app available for iOS. Waiting to sensitize the developer community on the needs of users Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, Project Islandwood continues preparing to new heights.