Windows Bridge for iOS

Windows Bridge for iOS - Tool to transfer iOS applications to Windows

Windows Bridge for iOS aka WinObjC is an open source project of Microsoft, providing an Objectice-C development environment for Visual Studio / Windows. In addition, WinObjC provides compatibility support for iOS application programming interfaces (iOS API).

Understand simply Windows Bridge for iOS is a tool to help transfer applications from iOS to Windows. Microsoft is committed to working with the community to develop iOS "bridges", enabling iOS application developers to bring their code to the Universal Windows platform.

To use WinObjC you need to meet some of the following requirements

• Operating system: Windows 10.
• Visual Studio 2015 with Windows development tools.Visual Studio 2015 Community is currently free.Select (at least) the following components during the installation process:Programming language: Visual C ++,Windows application development tools (all),Windows 8.1 tools and Windows Phone 8 / 8.1 ( all).

Windows Bridge for iOS includes 4 components

• Objective-C compiler
• Objective-C runtime
• iOS API headers / libs
• Visual Studio IDE integration

The best way to get started with WinObjC is to run an example. You should start with the WOCCatalog sample application, which demonstrates the XAML user interface controls and it is an iOS application.

To run the template, follow the steps below:

• Step 1: Extract the SDK zip file into a folder on your computer.
• Step 2: Navigate to winobjc / samples / WOCCatalog in the extracted directory.
• Step 3: Double click on WOCCatalog-WinStore10.sln to open it in VS2015.
• Step 4: In VS2015 right-click the WOCCatalog project (Universal Windows).
• Step 5: Select Set as StartUp project .
• Step 6: Use Ctrl-F5 to build and run the application.

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