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Imagine having to support iOS, Android and Hongmeng.
by dmortin 7y ago
Imagine having to support iOS, Android and Hongmeng.
- carlmr 7y agoIs that much worse than supporting Mac OS, Linux and Windows on the desktop?
- tty2300 7y agoSome programs even support BSD as well
- dmortin 7y agoCross platform SDKs are more mature on the desktop than on mobile, so doing the same on the desktop should be easier.
- carlmr 7y agoThe more mobile OSs we get the more likely we will develop better cross platform support. Which is also good to break the iOS/Android duopoly.
- simongr3dal 7y agoMicrosoft already tried to do that with their Windows Phone operating systems, and they weren't particularly successful even with some pretty big efforts on their part. They went as far as making it possible to run android binaries on Windows Phone (Project Astoria). They also made Visual Studio able to compile Objective-C code so it could make iOS codebases into apps for Windows Phone (Windows Bridge for iOS)
- tty2300 7y agoI imagine the tooling will just get better to the point where its like electron, you don't even think about what OS the user is running.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoI look forward to a future where we can enjoy Electron-like efficiency on our battery and storage constrained devices.
- krageon 7y agoI must assume you are sarcastic, unless perhaps you are talking about efficiency on an a different scale than the one I'm thinking of (which would be battery life and storage). Can you elaborate?
- bufferoverflow 7y agoI suspect HongMeng will be very close to Android.
- sdinsn 7y agoThere is an easy solution: don't support Hongmeng. It's not like your IP will be respected anyway.