Some time ago, I read somewhere that Microsoft will help iOS developers to migrate their apps/games to Microsfot Windows Phone market, and for that objective Microsoft launches iOS to WP7 API Mapping Tool. I was surprised, I thought Microsoft released a tool that save us a lot of time translating our classes from Objective-C, and maybe also xib files will be translated to XAML files with only a mouse click. So a few days ago I decided to download this tool to migrate some of my apps (Tickeating and Valladolid Wifi) to WP7 in a few time but... Oh wait! There was not a "magical tool" that transalate all the code for me...
So, did Microsoft lie us??? I don't think that at all, I want to think that there was a confusion with the name, and the word "tool" will not be there. But wait a moment, Microsoft had the detail for iOS developer to map the libraries from one framework to another. There isn't a "magical tool" that saves us a lot of time, but there is a good tool that saves us some time, be positive my friends.
With this aptitude I think that Microsoft wants to attract iOS apps and game developers to migrate its applications to Windows Phone. Develop for Windows Phone with Visual Studio 2010 its easy for people who develops for iOS so its a great idea release this kind of tools, in an attemp to gain Android apps market share and obviously sell more devices.
This is the URL of iOS to WP7 API Mapping Tool: http://wp7mapping.interoperabilitybridges.com/
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