Remember 'Android apps will work on Windows...'?

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Well it looks like it has been canned quietly: Microsoft shelves 'suicidal' Android-on-Windows plan • The Register

 

Analysis Microsoft has sidelined its plan to allow Windows 10 devices to run Android apps before it could do any serious damage, according to a report.Daniel Rubino at the Windows Central blog gathered some convincing evidence that Microsoft's Project Astoria has been wound down, while the runtime allowing the Android-on-Win10 magic to work has disappeared.

Microsoft declined to elaborate on its fate, but stressed that developers had "other tools offer great options for developers".

 

This is a great shame as I was looking forwards to this as a major plus point for Windows

[Arthur]

It's officially dead now.

 

Microsoft confirms Project Astoria is officially dead

 

After months of speculation, Microsoft has confirmed that the Project Astoria bridge is dead.

 

Here's Microsoft's official statement:

 

We also announced the Windows Bridge for Android (project “Astoria”) at Build last year, and some of you have asked about its status. We received a lot of feedback that having two Bridge technologies to bring code from mobile operating systems to Windows was unnecessary, and the choice between them could be confusing. We have carefully considered this feedback and decided that we would focus our efforts on the Windows Bridge for iOS and make it the single Bridge option for bringing mobile code to all Windows 10 devices, including Xbox and PCs. For those developers who spent time investigating the Android Bridge, we strongly encourage you to take a look at the iOS Bridge and Xamarin as great solutions.