How Will Android Apps Work In Windows 10 For Phones?
When Windows 10 Phones launches later in the year, we will be able to run Android apps on phones and tablets. But Android apps will not work on a Surface, notebook or desktop. The Android apps will ran on an Android subsystem that’s likely to be based on KitKat.
But this doesn’t mean any Android app will run, there will be some app won’t work in Windows 10. Gallo said “We replace the Android services with our own,” He also said that “We are running them in our own container – conceptually we are running them as a universal app so we use a middle ware layer for translating APIs across but they still run in the Windows app security model.”
That will improve performance and battery life aver Android. He said “Apps will not run in the background and there are some changes made so they behave like a well-behaved app.” Standard platform capabilities will be redirected to the Windows equivalents – that’s the file system, contact and photo integration, camera, sensors and network connections.
Microsoft Not Google Services
For Windows 10 you’ll get Android apps from the Windows Store rather then from Google Play Store. Also they won’t use Google services. Instead of Google Ads and Google Analytics the developers will able to switch to using Microsoft Ads and App Insights. the Bing Maps and the Windows location services instead of Google Maps, the Windows notification service instead of Android push notifications, Xbox Live services instead of Google Play services ,and any other services Microsoft is able to add to Project Astoria before launch.Not all Android apps will work well this way. Messaging apps and those apps that need to run into background will probably have issues running.Gallo and other Microsoft executives are keen to emphasise that bringing Android apps to Windows 10 for Phones isn’t the only way they’re trying to bring developers and their apps to Windows 10. There’s also the ability to wrap Win32 and Silverlight apps in the App-V container or to bundle up a website as an app (complete with API calls to add Windows 10 features) and distribute those through the Windows Store – and iOS developers can bring an Xcode project into Visual Studio and share source code between an iOS and Windows app.