Rumor: Project Astoria/Windows Bridge for Android development in peril

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[url]http://www.windowscentral.com/microsofts-project-astoria-delayed[/url]

[quote=Windows Central]During Microsoft's Build conference earlier this year the company announced their software Bridges for developers. Now the future of one of those bridges is uncertain.

These tools were to help developers port their software to Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile and were broken down into four projects, including:

- Project Westminster - For porting Web apps
- Project Centennial - For porting Classic Win32 apps
- Project Islandwood - For porting iOS apps
- Project Astoria - For emulating Android apps

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[B][U]What is Astoria?[/U][/B]

Reports of running Android apps on Windows 10 go back to 2014 including a report by Mary Jo Foley and a report by Tom Warren from February 2014.

Astoria is an Android emulator meaning devs do not have any real work to do. Instead, the phone ran the Android APK file directly. Early Insider builds of Windows 10 Mobile had this layer in the OS letting consumers sideload APK files directly.

[B][U]Astoria status – 'Not going as planned'[/U][/B]

Windows Central is now hearing from multiple sources that Project Astoria is on hold indefinitely, and maybe even shelved completely. Although Microsoft is not publicly — even privately — stating Astoria is cancelled, they are not openly talking about it anymore, or even privately discussing it with developers.

One source has told us that "the Android app porting is not going as planned."[/quote]

[FlandersNed]

That would suck, Windows Phone really needs this to thrive.

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[QUOTE=FlandersNed;49114318]That would suck, Windows Phone really needs this to thrive.[/QUOTE]

Windows Phone wouldn't thrive even if Project Astoria/Windows Bridge wasn't in peril.

[Elspin]

[QUOTE=PrusseLusken;49115915]The biggest problem with Windows Phone is that 99% of major app developers go "oh, we won't make apps for WP8.1, since nobody uses it".

Then the phone buyers go "oh, I won't get a WP, since nobody makes apps for them."

It's a dumb fucking thing. I have a Nokia Lumia 920 on WP8.1 which is a [B]great[/B] phone when it comes to build and design. The only problem is the completely shitty "market" for WP apps. The store is full of $2 calendar and Tetris apps.[/QUOTE]

This isn't why it failed, it's the result of it failing. By the time that everyone's talking about how unsupported a platform is it's far too late. When android took over the mobile market it didn't release with every application that exists ported to it from ios, I mean a lot of ios devs still aren't porting their shit to android. I'd have liked it if wp got more popular but almost anything microsoft makes seems to be doomed out of popular opinion even if it's decent.