Windows Bridge for iOS (a.k.a. Islandwood or WinObjC, coming this fall) is distributed under a MIT license and supports Windows 8 and Windows 10 applications (both 32 and 64 bits). Salmaan Ahmed, Program Manager, explains why the bridge is not a port:
Behind this goal are three core principles that drove the architecture and design of the bridge:
- Full Windows API access: Making it easy to use Windows APIs within Objective-C code
- iOS compatibility: Empower developers to reuse as much existing iOS code as reasonably possible
- No sandboxing: iOS and Windows APIs should be able to work together
Our first principle is especially important because Windows has a rich and fully functional API set that continues to grow and evolve. If the current release of the bridge doesn’t support a particular feature that you need, then we don’t want you to feel “stuck” until the next update; instead, we’d much rather make it simple for you to use the corresponding Windows API and integrate everything seamlessly into your code.
Friday, August 7, 2015
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