RE: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-05-01 Thread Jim Grimsby JR. via Talk
apps. Hth -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+jgrimsby=roadrunner@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Clark via Talk Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:18 AM To: Robin; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows

RE: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-30 Thread Sky Mundell via Talk
lf Of Chip Orange via Talk Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 11:00 AM To: Jim Grimsby JR.; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10 Thanks Jim for reporting this. Well, I had a look at the article, and the developers who have tried running their

RE: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-30 Thread Chip Orange via Talk
Thanks Jim for reporting this. Well, I had a look at the article, and the developers who have tried running their phone apps on Windows did have to modify their code in order to get it to run successfully, and the article only said the needed APIs would be available to the developers. It did n

Re: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-30 Thread Stephen Clark via Talk
I'm certainly no expert on this, but being a programmer, it sounds to me like the only difference is that now app developers will be able to develop apps from Windows which will run on Windows phone and iOS and other mobile devices. I doubt it has anything to do with it being compatible with, s

RE: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-30 Thread Jim Grimsby JR. via Talk
ssion List Subject: Re: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10 I presume if Microsoft's Strategy of persuading iOS AppDevelopers as well as Android AppDevelopers to port their MobileApps over to Windows10 in the form of Microsoft's Universal Apps, neither Apple's

Re: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-30 Thread Robin via Talk
I presume if Microsoft's Strategy of persuading iOS AppDevelopers as well as Android AppDevelopers to port their MobileApps over to Windows10 in the form of Microsoft's Universal Apps, neither Apple's VoiceOver nor Google-Android's TalkBack will be part of the package. I beleive the only option

Re: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-30 Thread Lloyd Rasmussen via Talk
I am very skeptical about some of the Windows 10 speculation that has gone around in recent months. Will Window-Eyes run on Windows 10 phones? Not unless it is recompiled and probably rewritten (again). Android apps are written in a language similar to Java for touch-screen devices. They may wo

Re: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-29 Thread Scott via Talk
yes, me too. me too. On 4/29/2015 5:19 PM, Jim Grimsby JR. via Talk wrote: I usualy don't reply to my own messages, but I wonder if this also means we will be able to run those wonderful android wigits on windows? If so will they also work with our screen readers? I am so excited. Can't wait

RE: Breaking! Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10

2015-04-29 Thread Jim Grimsby JR. via Talk
I usualy don't reply to my own messages, but I wonder if this also means we will be able to run those wonderful android wigits on windows? If so will they also work with our screen readers? I am so excited. Can't wait for windows 10 with these new features. If it these things can be maid to wor