Rumor: Microsoft may announce native Android app/APK support on Windows 10 devices at Build 2015, in

[Levelog]

[QUOTE=FlandersNed;47623485]See, this is the problem. The FIRST party apps are shit but the third-party apps made by the WP community are incredible. There's a guy who's recreated a better version of Tinder, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat (before Snapchat made sure to remove it from the WP store and block the accounts of anyone using it as part of their no third-party apps policy, even though there is no snapchat app for WP) and they're great. Apps like myTube/Tubecast and Readit/Baconit are amazing and in some cases better than their companion apps on Android or iPhone.

There ARE apps, but a lot of people simply just don't realize it. They just go off on what they've heard, assumptions or bias.

It's been said already in this thread but this is similar to OS/2 vs. DOS and Blackberry's idea to put android apps on their store. In both cases the losing company allowed emulation of the other company's programs/apps on their devices and people simply chose the other company so that they didn't have to emulate the experience of having it.

Also this kind of goes against the 'Universal Apps' model for Windows 10, because it only really affects Windows Phone but undermines the point of only developing for one Windows system and by extension developing for all of them.

They might not lose those devs dedicated to windows phone but they will lose potential customers who will just see Windows Phone as another Blackberry.[/QUOTE]

But I'd love a good browser on my WP. I've yet to find a browser that can even touch Chrome mobile. I don't use many apps at all, so I haven't done too much digging in the store, but that is certainly something that is lacking.

[FlandersNed]

[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;47625829]So they're in the process of announcing this now, and it sounds like it's about making it really easy to port apps from Android to Windows, not simply having Android apps run on Windows. I think this is a better approach, it won't discourage people from developing for Windows, it just makes it easier for them to do so.[/QUOTE]

Alright, this sounds a lot better than what Thurrot was suggesting. Seems a lot of people were lead down the wrong track by the above article.

[fruxodaily]

[QUOTE=meppers;47626005]confirmed:

[URL="http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/29/android-ios-apps-on-windows-10/"]http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/29/android-ios-apps-on-windows-10/[/URL]

the app developers have to run their iOS and Android app code through visual studio and recompile it as a windows program.[/QUOTE]

oh so it doesn't natively suppot .apk's because that would be hell useful for Windows 10 desktop