Hello, At my daily job I work as WinMo C++ developer, so I had enough time to become hater of that platform ;)
But now, M$ is coming with new Windows Phone. As I suspected, they will abandon awful Win32/MFC native coding and all applications, will be now managed - run in CLR sandboxes on top of 15 years old Win32 kernel. Main coding language will be C# with .NET framework - Java rival. WinMo always was terrible phone OS, but now, more interesting is, that Windows Phone will support XNA framework: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQv_3fwopo8 This is full gaming framework with C# interfaces and support for 2D/3D graphics, animation, sprites, net play, game sound, controllers, etc.. XNA greatly improves creating games, because it gives a developer an ready to use game abstraction layer. To the point; Android needs game framework, like XNA. Maybe it should be written as NDK library, ready to link with your own application. This library could load, manage and draw sprites, backgrounds, make simple physics, etc.. Why ? To create games faster, easier. At this time, you must be very skilled to create simple platformer with 2 bkgs and 5 sprites. Our devices have even 1GHz CPU's and animation can be STILL too slow ! I'm tired of the same logical bricks/ball/falling diamonds games over and over. What do you think ? Is there any chance, that Google will work on something like that ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
