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I only wish react-native and this supported Windows Phone. It's such an awesome OS but no one will ever use it because of the lack of apps :( What do you consi

I only wish react-native and this supported Windows Phone. It's such an awesome OS but no one will ever use it because of the lack of apps :( What do you consider awesome in Windows Phone comparing to Android and iOS?

BinaryIdiot 11y ago
> What do you consider awesome in Windows Phone comparing to Android and iOS? So I only have experience using a cheap phone I bought from Amazon last year (it was a $35 Windows Phone that surprisingly worked very well) but it has a lot of things to love about it - Smooth OS even on older / cheaper phones. Can't always say the same with Android. - It does notifications the right way in that it has updates on the app tiles in addition to the drop down. So if you dismiss it from the drop down the number will still be present in the app (I constantly dismissed all notifications in Android and it would take some time to figure out what app had a notification I accidentally dismissed). - The development environment is second to none. It's so easy to get started, build, deploy and your app can work on a mobile phone, tablet, computer and even a freaking gaming console. Single software project! - Live tiles are awesome; basically a nice and easy way to do widgets that iOS sorely lacks but forces them to be more uniform so you don't have oddly styled widgets like you run into on occasion in Android - Cortana is more open than Google Now and Siri and was the first assistant that could help you with things regarding contacts and locations ("Remind me to tell my wife I love her the next time I talk to her" works) I'm not disillusioned though; I'm pretty sure it lacks stuff that some of the other OSes have I just don't really remember off hand as it's been a year since I've used it. But it's an incredible little OS that, with the newest phones, you can plugin in a monitor and keyboard and bam, you're using the same applications in a desktop view (so it's not enlarging the mobile app; you get the same menus that you get on the desktop). If it had most of the apps I use every day I would move to it.
pjmlp 11y ago
Comparing with Android. - C++ is a first class language on the platform, not constrained like the NDK - C++ also gets first class tooling not the second class treatment Google gives C++ devs - WinRT is a very nice framework as the second coming of COM - .NET is compiled to native code AOT - Visual Studio rocks in debugging capabilities, specially for parallel and graphics debugging. - Less resource hungry as Android - XAML and its tooling (Expression Blend) for UI design - Common runtime, develop WinRT components and use them from any language that understands WinRT.

BinaryIdiot 11y ago

> What do you consider awesome in Windows Phone comparing to Android and iOS? So I only have experience using a cheap phone I bought from Amazon last year (it was a $35 Windows Phone that surprisingly worked very well) but it has a lot of things to love about it - Smooth OS even on older / cheaper phones. Can't always say the same with Android. - It does notifications the right way in that it has updates on the app tiles in addition to the drop down. So if you dismiss it from the drop down the number will still be present in the app (I constantly dismissed all notifications in Android and it would take some time to figure out what app had a notification I accidentally dismissed). - The development environment is second to none. It's so easy to get started, build, deploy and your app can work on a mobile phone, tablet, computer and even a freaking gaming console. Single software project! - Live tiles are awesome; basically a nice and easy way to do widgets that iOS sorely lacks but forces them to be more uniform so you don't have oddly styled widgets like you run into on occasion in Android - Cortana is more open than Google Now and Siri and was the first assistant that could help you with things regarding contacts and locations ("Remind me to tell my wife I love her the next time I talk to her" works) I'm not disillusioned though; I'm pretty sure it lacks stuff that some of the other OSes have I just don't really remember off hand as it's been a year since I've used it. But it's an incredible little OS that, with the newest phones, you can plugin in a monitor and keyboard and bam, you're using the same applications in a desktop view (so it's not enlarging the mobile app; you get the same menus that you get on the desktop). If it had most of the apps I use every day I would move to it.

pjmlp 11y ago

Comparing with Android. - C++ is a first class language on the platform, not constrained like the NDK - C++ also gets first class tooling not the second class treatment Google gives C++ devs - WinRT is a very nice framework as the second coming of COM - .NET is compiled to native code AOT - Visual Studio rocks in debugging capabilities, specially for parallel and graphics debugging. - Less resource hungry as Android - XAML and its tooling (Expression Blend) for UI design - Common runtime, develop WinRT components and use them from any language that understands WinRT.