Project Astoria: Universal Windows Platform Bridge for the Android Runtime

This video demonstrates Project Astoria - the tool to port Android apps to Windows Phone, in action

via:dev.windows.com
Following the launch of Windows 10, we will release “Project Astoria” (also referred to as “Project A”), a Universal Windows Platform Bridge toolkit that enables you to build Windows apps for phones by reusing your Android code. With “Project Astoria” you’ll be able to:

• Build Windows apps for phones with few code changes
• Use a Microsoft interoperability library to integrate Microsoft services into your app with very little effort
• Test and debug your app from your preferred IDE
• Publish your app and get paid through the Windows Store

Based on the video: With a one line code change, Microsoft shows how to switch an app from using Google Maps to Bing Maps. By creating competing services over time to what Google and Apple offer then, Microsoft can bring similar experiences to these ported apps.

It will also identifies what changes will need to be made to an existing app for another platform if a developer wants to port it to Windows. Dragging the current Android or iOS code into the Universal Windows Platform Bridge toolkit causes some preliminary analysis to take place and guide developers to what code requires tweaking.
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