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Microsoft also is launching an Android Porting Tool

To take care of the API mapping tool uncovered problems in the future, the developer of the “Access Guy” (Screenshot: ZDNet).

Microsoft has now introduced an API for Android mapping tool. It helps developers to port their programs to Windows Android Phone 7. For IOS has been available since May, a similar tool.

In a blog post Microsoft warns against exaggerated expectations: The handle is not a “magic wand”. It will spare developers with the tools and documentation available but a lot of trouble.

The “Android Phone to Windows API mapping tool” is a translation device, the program events, classes and methods of their counterparts Android in Windows Mobile 7 facing. It also makes available a feedback forum, where developers share and ask questions.

According to Microsoft, are not covered due to the different architectures, all interfaces. It is working on extensions, but is now helping out, a “App Guy”. This helper developer forums monitored, searched for relevant issues and problems, and carries them along on a special page. Developers who are reading long technical texts do not mind, Microsoft is offering a 90-page white paper titled “Windows Mobile 7 for Android Application Developers Guide” on.

Next, Microsoft plans to accommodate the features of his mango updates listed in the API mapping tool. That should happen over the summer.

The purpose of the exercise is, of course, to attract more developers for the platform. When the tools are good, and Windows Mobile 7 has as much success as expected, the analysts at IDC, the programmers themselves, thus opening up a source of additional revenue.

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