In an effort to grow Marketplace one of Microsoft’s main strategies have been to make it easy for developers to bring their popular iPhone applications to Windows Phone 7. This comes an attempt to catch up with Apple App Store & Android Market that are full of quality applications.
As WMPowerUser reports, Microsoft has now launched an iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool to helps developers more easily translate their applications to the Windows phone 7 API. With this tool, iPhone developers can take their apps, pick out the iOS API calls, and quickly look up the equivalent classes, methods and notification events in WP7. A developer can search a given iOS API call and find the equivalent WP7 along with C# sample codes and API documentations for both platforms.
Microsoft is also providing a 90+ pages “Windows Phone 7 Guide for iPhone Application Developers†white paper to get developers up and running.
- Windows Phone API Mapping Tool can be downloaded from here.