No native apps on Windows Phone 7 Series

http://androgeek.com/no-native-apps-on-windows-phone-7-series.html

by stejules • 16 years ago

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akadien• 16 years ago

How long before this platform is commonly referred to as "WiPh" (Wiff)?

wtallis4• 16 years ago

That's still better than Wince.

mortenjorck• 16 years ago

This actually sounds like a good idea. It gives graphically undemanding, data-driven apps a relatively streamlined dev environment, while game development can draw on the existing mindshare of XNA developers.

johns3• 16 years ago

That's a little misleading. Managed code/Silverlight on WPS7 is the equivalent of the iPhone SDK. How low-level does this guy want to go?

martythemaniak• 16 years ago

Kinda funny coming from an Android-centric blog, since by that definition, Android's Java-on-Dalvik apps aren't "native" either.

rbanffy4• 16 years ago

AFAIK you can write native apps for Android. It's just that they won't run on every Android phone, but will be tied to specific architectures (not a big problem since all Android phones seem to use ARM).

wtallis4• 16 years ago

iPhone apps are compiled down to ARM machine code.

.NET managed code is bytecode for the CLR virtual machine.

That's a significant difference.

johns3• 16 years ago

OK, technically it is different. In practice, it isn't. If you want to build on the iPhone, the SDK gives you an API to use the phone's features. If you want to program against WPS7 you're getting a version of Silverlight with APIs to give you access to the phones features. Both are abstractions over a lower-level. Both are native to the phone (as opposed to web apps, which is the common distinction made on the iPhone).

malkia3• 16 years ago

I don't think it's the equivalent.

First native iPhone apps are compiled. Second Apple specifically made it that garbage collector is not used, although they released it for Mac OS X (Objective C 2.0 runtime).

Here is how low-level - "C", and assembly - for example you can use (depending on the ARM version) various math libraries on the iPhone to get speedup.

Check the oolong engine for more details.

abolibibelot• 16 years ago

There's a lot of people here who seem to think .NET bytecode (or Java for that matter) is run by the VM. How 90's of you guys. It's compiled on first run, so technically there's no difference with (iPhone) Objective-C apps. The GC may factor in, though.

ComputerGuru• 16 years ago

Bad title. On PCs, 'native' means low-level machine code, and managed/non-native means .NET.

But on phones, 'native' means you get access to the phone itself, the OS, and its APIs, and non-native means javascript/html-powered everything.

Shorel• 16 years ago

Cell phones have enough horse power!

Let's waste it!

No native apps on Windows Phone 7 Series

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