Now Android and iOS apps can run on Windows platform

After months of speculations, last week Microsoft revealed its plans to get mobile apps on Windows 10. While the company has been researching how to emulate Android apps and finally it found a different solution, that will allow developers to bring their existing code to Windows platform.

Now iOS and Android developers will be able to export their apps and games directly to Windows universal apps. Alongside Microsoft is enabling this with two new software development kits. For the Android platform, Microsoft is enabling developers to use Java and C++ code on Windows 10, and for iOS developers they’ll be able to utilize their existing Objective C code.

The idea is simple; get apps on Windows 10 without the need for developers to recompile them fully for Windows. While it sounds simple, the actual process will be a bit complicated than just pushing a few buttons to recompile apps. Microsoft’s innovation to developers is to bring their code across without many changes, and then eventually leverage the capabilities of Windows like Cortana, Xbox Live, Holograms, Live Tiles and more. Microsoft has been testing its new tools with some genius developers like King Digital, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, to get games ported across to Windows platform. Candy Crush Saga as it exists today on Windows Phone has been converted from iOS code using Microsoft tools without many changes.