Microsoft lays out iOS porting plans with Islandwood
Eleven months ago, Microsoft introduced its Windows Bridge for iOS, otherwise known as Project Islandwood. It is an open source tool to port iOS apps to Windows freely available on GitHub. Since then, the project has experienced considerable downloads and Microsoft has made quite a bit of changes. All of this is documented in the Windows blog.
According to the company, developers have been requesting complete API coverage of Microsoft's UIKit implementation. UIKit is a set of 30 modular interface components used in iOS's Cocoa Touch, among other platforms, and it's difficult to modify UIKit because that would mean modifying hundreds of classes.
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