Microsoft has been a late entrant to the mobile apps scene and its Windows Marketplace catering to Windows Phone 7 devices has therefore unsurprisingly got just over 10,000 apps as of now. This is nowhere near what application stores of Apple or Google Android or even Samsung have to offer. In an effort to increase the number of apps for WP7 devices and to turn the tide in its favor, Microsoft has launched a new tool.
The tool known as iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool, helps developers to port their iOS apps over to Windows Phone 7 platform. Developers can use the toolkit provided at this website to quickly migrate short blobs of iOS code to the equivalent C# code. This essentially means that the developer would not have to work from scratch to write the WP7 app, he/she has already written for iOS, thus saving a lot of headache. Microsoft plans to add more languages, and Android will surely be one of them.
Whurley, Chief Technology Officer from Chaotic Moon, shares their experience from developing on other phone platforms and talk through their Windows Phone 7 story.
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