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Recognizing the lack of app recognition in its library for Windows Phone, Microsoft has been working on a way to convert data from Android apps into the same apps on Windows Phone. This method will catalog the apps you have on your Android phone and seek the same apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace and install them during set up. If no corresponding or compatible app is found, it will notify you of when it is available. At the moment Windows Phone has close to 100 thousand apps in the Marketplace while Google Play has more than half a million. This means while some of the more popular ones exist on both platforms, such as Foursquare, Evernote, Endomondo, Skype, and Twitter, many others are still not available on Windows Phone.
Photo editing company Aviary has released a development kit for Windows Phone for other apps to use as their image editor of choice. As Windows Phone is still in its early period, Aviary hopes to become the leading partner for photo apps on the platform. The free SDK allows all sorts of applications to add photo editing components without having to build it themselves. As GeekWire noted, third party Twitter app Rowi is among the first to adopt Aviary. It also offers SDK for iOS and Android. Aviary recently replaced Piknik as the image editor for Flickr users.
There’s a new platform in town and its name is Windows Phone. It’s a different beast from the old and discontinued Windows Mobile and it’s certainly different from the more familiar iOS and Android platforms. Windows Phone has actually been around for more than a year yet there’s still a lot of opportunities to be seized.
To get you started, Microsoft has published a number of guidelines and overviews to help developers get on board the platform and learn the ropes. It also has the much better designed App Hub, which is developer central for those working on Windows Phone and XBox apps and games.
If you plan to venture into Windows Phone territory, go check out the links.
