Microsoft abandoned “Project Astoria” for porting Android apps to Windows 10

Microsoft, last year, announced that the developers would be capable of easily porting their apps already built on iOS and Android platforms to the Windows 10 platform to run on Windows devices. Microsoft named the projects as Project Islandwood & Project Astoria for respective platforms. The Android subsystem was unexpectedly disappeared from the Windows 10 build…

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Microsoft acquires Xamarin, a leading mobile app development platform provider

Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development. Along side with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a rich mobile development offering that enables developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences to all major mobile platforms including iOS, Android, and Windows. Xamarin also enable developers to take…

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