Porting iPhone App to Windows Mobile is possible

**darren.wlsn1** · #1 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 09:50 AM

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/new...ws-mobile.html good read, wonder whats next?

Spiderman313 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 03:18 PM

With the multitude of mobile app platforms that exist today, it must be an absolute arduous tasks for developers to pick and choose which platform they should put effort to develop application. Would it be nice to have tools allowing easy porting app from one platform to another. Evidently all platforms do not have similar hardware capabilities (screen size, supported graphics, touch-screen capacitive, chipset, etc..), but hopefully, they will become more common and ubiquitous on all smartphones in near future.

Few developers at MSDN forums are leading the project to port iPhone app to Windows Mobile platform. There are few challenges along the way due to hardware discrepancies above explained, but in overall, this is a great encouraging start. They just published an technical article on MSDN titled Porting the Amplitude Application from the iPhone to a Windows Mobile Device – a Case Study(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee355030.aspx) which outlines the real-world experiences of a developer who ported the popular Amplitude application. [Source Windows Team Blog]

meatstick · #3 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 03:35 PM

Wow this is awesome news thanks for the info im gonna check it out and see if I can help.
Can you imagine a wm iphone appstore app haha.

**gadgetfreak** · #4 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 03:52 PM

Threads merged...

**gTen** · #5 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 05:33 PM

That is why I think Java is slacking...the best way to run cross-platform applications...so far Java has been on many dumb phones but they really need to market Java on these mobile platforms more for developers. (Yes I know there is a Java for smart phones..but not all manufactures bundle it and I have yet to see a serious application in java)

I'm sure Apple and MS and all the other platforms want their apps to be only on their platform..but from developer perspective, writing Java code would make it simpler and easier to go cross-platform thus it saves time, money and effort.
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**Noir** · #6 (**permalink**) 08-02-2009, 09:36 AM

ideally if this was true, it also means that apple developers can port wm cab programs to the iphone os...that's most interesting