"Write Once, Run Everywhere" & Windows 10
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- 5. @mrlacey
- 6. The leading cross-promotion network for Windows Phone and Windows Store apps
- 16. <html> <head> <title> Written Once and Running Everywhere? </title> </head> <body> <p> Pretty much anything can serve plain text in HTML. Right? </p> </body> </html>
- 18. #define
- 22. Cross Platform (X-Plat) Want • Lots of users • Work on multiple devices • Good UX • Native functionality • Homogeneity Don’t want • Unnecessary duplication • Unnecessary work • Unnecessary costs
- 23. What do we mean by the “every” in “everywhere”?
- 24. What do we mean by the “any” in “anywhere”?
- 25. What about Windows 10?
- 26. UNIVERSAL
- 31. Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
- 32. UWP App Build one package and distribute to and run on all versions of Windows 10
- 33. UWP App Build one package and distribute to and run on all versions of Windows 10
- 38. File > New UWP App One project that runs on desktop and mobile
- 48. File > New UWP App One project with UI that adapts depending on where it’s running
- 49. File > New Win10 Mobile App One project that only runs on Mobile devices
- 52. Win10 != one OS
- 54. File > New UWP App One project with code that adapts depending on where it’s running
- 55. Why care about Windows 10 Mobile?
- 56. Mobile != Phone
- 58. Continuum
- 60. IoT != cheap PC
- 62. One device and apps Everywhere
- 63. One device and apps Anywhere
- 64. "I love idea of 'Write Once Right Everywhere', which was rebranded to 'Universal apps', but how does UWP help my app run on Android and iOS?“ - A windows developer
- 66. File > New Many Apps All the platforms sharing code and, optionally, some UI definitions
- 68. …so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
- 69. Yes “mobile first” but actually everything is mobile
- 71. So how does Windows 10 measure up?
- 73. Cross Platform (X-Plat) Want • Lots of users • Work on multiple devices • Good UX • Native functionality • Homogeneity Don’t want • Unnecessary duplication • Unnecessary costs • Unnecessary work
Editor's Notes
- Consultant Windows
- I do some work for them If you are building apps for Windows then I’d love to talk to you about how you promote them and if cross promotion is right for you
- So, this is my topic for today
- You may know this idea like this
- Or like this But really they’re the same thing
- IF you’re familiar with the concept you may also know it as THIS
- You’ve probably also heard this as
- So what’s the history?
- It all starts with Java I haven’t locked down the exact history but Used about them, before Java launched, in March 1995 Used by Sun in Jan 1996 The great promise of bytecode
- But their isn’t just one lot of bytecode There are differences and some criticisms of having different versions. What if you could have identical bytecode on all platforms?...
- Squeak scratch Bit identical bytecode everywhere : Everywhere = Windows, Mac & Linux What if we wanted to really go to as many platforms as possible and without intermediary compilers
- No images – images get complicated when you’re on lots of platforms and devices I’m old enough to remember text only web sites but they don’t really cut it. This is probably a bit to far for us to take our users just for the sake of making it easy for us to only have to write once. What if we need more sophistication and low level power in code
- Runs everywhere – but with lots of different compilers Powerful with low level access But to run everywhere has some implications
- If your code needs lots of these, is it really writing once? Or writing lots of versions at the same time? If we did write once but have to compile multiple times is that an issue? Possibly. There’s more to creating an app than just writing code. Obviously there’s the compile step but there’s more.
- Regardless of the process you use to build apps there’s a lot more than just writing the code that you’d ideally like to only do once.
- If these are tasks you’re doing for every platform the app runs on then only doing them once is ideal. Why is it ideal?
- Because it all comes down to business. WORE is primarily a business driven goal to reduce costs. Both dev & maintenance IME - Developers either like the idea for the technical challenge or dislike ti because they fear for their job security.
- Our indirect business goal is cross platform development. I’m aware we’re moving away from how things work on Windows 10. but bear with me. I know where I’m going. So what about everywhere
- OR
- Do we mean 100% absolutely all platforms/devices/countries/languages? For how long? Future devices? Old devices? (in & out of warranty?)
- 85Million users so far Aiming for a billion users. Could be worth investigating. What’s the idea behind creating an app that runs on all Windows 10 devices?
- Windows 10 allows creating hat it calls universal apps
- Windows 8.1 had “universal apps” but they were different.
- Win10 diffs from 8.1 with the idea of a UWP.
- Here’s the promise of UWP. That certainly sounds a lot like WORE – and press have picked up on that.
- But there are some subtleties. Let’s first look at what we mean by “all versiosn”
- Here’s the 6 families of Win10 Actually 7
- Here’s a better idea of how different devices running different families work. 2 you might not be as familiar with
- Surface hub At it’s simplest it’s an expensive whiteboard But potential to be so much more Can preorder now for del starting Jan next year
- HoloLens AR, not VR Entirely self contained Very few details
- So, lets actually look at some code. ** That’s great but what if you want something different across devices : 6 strategies
- reposition
- resize
- reflow
- reveal
- replace
- Re-architect
- It’s not just a mobile vs table/desktop issue though. Look how different the sizes are. Look at the wall – see how different the sizes are. How do we cope with creating one app that may be on anything between 4 and 84 inches
- Effective pixels resolution (no. of pixels) - physical size - expected viewing distance
- Instead of 4-84 inch range VGA >~ 2K
- Different resources Different pages (code, folder, name)
- CHEATING – COMPILING MULTIPLE TIMES – BUT CAN PACKAGE ALL IN ONE GO But if just want one platform only need one
- Multiple families of OSs
- Each extension is like an interface It’s like Each OS release knows that all the interfaces exist but has implementations that just throw NIEs Except it isn’t as it really does it with reflection
- Here’s how that looks
- Mobile also means small tablets – in theory
- Why care? – not for fanbois
- Our survey says: don’t know but like it and most excited about it “An app experience transcends a single device. And a device transcends a single configuration.”
- Connect phone to a monitor, and maybe mouse and keyboard too and you have a PC for those times you really need one. Experience determined by power/capabilities of the phone If I have the monitor & mouse & keyboard at home why not get a PC as well. Not for people who can Hot desking to the extreme At home why not use a Raspberry Pi as a cheap PC? It’s one OS and apps run everywhere
- Prototyping and embedded devices No store access Surface Hub isn’t a massive tablet – collaboration device. No persisted user state. HoloLens is completely different again. – but will allow deploying of a UWP
- 7B people in world but only 3B on the internet - I suspect that this is part of the reason that WP might have survived so long. Not just that mobile is everything. Next x billion Gonna be mobile first (and probably mobile only) But sometimes will want more Games Media Office Built in companion app or two Yes it’s been tried before. Samsung/Android – Ubuntu phone
- Continuum means USE it everywhere Content, data and docs are everywhere.
- Take it anywhere
- That’s all good but There’s still lots of confusion
- Xamarin let us reuse the skills used for building on Windows and create native iOS and Android applications
- Look. Here’s a solution So that takes windows devs to “everywhere” What about making Win10 part of “everywhere” for people with iOS & Android code bases?
- So we can build apps that run everywhere….
- Do you really want the same things everywhere? – companion apps? Do your users? Platform differentiation – may need a custom UI Some platforms let you do things others don’t You may not want to put all your eggs in one basket. Not all apps make sense on all platforms – beyond mobile Increased complexity of putting all in one place Shared vs single user devices Volume of resources in bundle – MRT We’ve spent the last few years telling developers they shouldn’t try and squeeze everything from the desktop version of an app into a mobile one -
- Don’t end up with a desktop app that is just a mobile app stretched – Adobe LCD
- Don’t end up with a desktop app that is just a mobile app stretched – Adobe LCD
- Homogenity is key. The feedback I’m hearing a lot is not that people want to WORE but that they want to have knowledge and tools that will let them build for everywhere.