I was on the runescape site nd its open source could anyone port it btw It is not java or opengl should be easy I would do but I have no windows 8 macines in my house if you can I much apricate it
use windows 8 before, but it is make me not comfotable, so i am using windows 7 now,
but there's no different for windows 8 to windows 7, excpet the Metro UI
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Hi all,
I have read that Microsoft plans to make an OS called Windows embedded/compact 7 for devices like smartphones or pcs who haven't the needed minimum hardware requirements to run windows 7/windows phone 7
So other phones still have the chance to get wp7?
The issue will still be with drivers.
WP7 is built on WCE7, much like WM6.X is built on WCE5.2.
The driver model relies on BSPs (board support packages) that are built for a version of Windows CE and a piece of hardware. I don't think the CE5.2 BSPs will work with WCE7, and as far as I know, very few have access to BSPs, and most of those work for HTC/MS/Qualcomm.
not sure about win7 embedded but
xp embedded is still xp as in only run on a x86 cpu not an arm based
We are a small company looking to do some inhouse programming using tablets. Initially we were going to move forward on an Android Honeycomb platform because we have only Java developers here. But it looks like we can't get rugged tablets for that platform. There seem to be a lot more rugged tablets that are Windows based.
Initially I thought that we would have to use C# /.Net to code for native applications for the Windows tablets (and Windows specific API). But a colleague of mine thought we could use Java to build native applications on the Windows tablets also. Is this true? Can I use Java to build applications that can be deployed both to the Windows tablets and the Honeycombs? Our applications will also use GPS location based services. Any feedback/pointers would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks.
What devices are you talking about? Phones (running Windows Mobile 6 or Windows Phone 7) or tablets (like the iPad, currently running Windows 7 and in the future Windows 8)?
Most of Windows-based tablets are based in just normal Windows computers on x86 processor. Only very few are Windows CE-based.
On Windows XP/7 tablet PCs you can write in Java without any problem. I am not sure about GPS usage, but it can be read using JNI or just serial port. You can have some common classes/class libraries for Windows and Android, but the device logic and UI needs to be specific (and the JVM is different - Sun JVM vs. Dalvik).
On Windows 8 with "Metro", however, there is no sign yet you can develop WinRT apps using Java.
I am talking about Windows 7 tablets (and Windows 8 in future)
If you want create an app you need C# and silverlight
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I am talking about Windows 7 tablets (and Windows 8 in future)
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Well for Windows 7 you can develop using more or less whatever you prefer since there are no differences between the OS on the desktop and a tablet.
So yes, you can use Java for Windows 7.
There is some API for Location services in Windows 7 however I don't know the details about this.
I also don't know much about Android, but if you can develop for Android in Java you can at least share some code between the Windows 7 and Android version of your software.
Windows 8 will introduce a new kind of app (metro-style app) and those apps can only be written in HTML5 and Javascript or C#/VB.Net/C++/C and XAML.
However, users will still be able to use your Java Apps on Windows 8.
so it looks like Windows 7 is like a windows 7 PC. I can't find any specific books on amazon, so I do apologize if my questions are stupid.
1) Can I develop a Java application similar to that of a desktop and deploy the EAR/WAR file to the windows 7 tablet? if so, does the tablet have an inbuilt web server type application (websphere, tomcat) to serve pages? if not, will the app be loaded on a remote server and be accessed via a browser? In this case the tablet will need an internet connection all the time, correct?
Thanks again.
A Windows 7 Tablet is basically just running the desktop version of Windows 7 so you can do anything with the tablet that you could do with a Windows 7 desktop machine.
Note that Windows Phone 7 is an entirely different operating system that's barely connected.
Hi!
I am going to buy the Pro version of Surface.. I am not a developer and I don't know much more about technical details.
I read that Windows RT doesn't support .exe files because of ARM CPU, instead of Surface Pro which does it. It's strange to me to accept the idea that Surface Pro, with Intel architecture, supports .exe files and all of Windows Phone apps, developed for ARM devices.
So, It really supports all ARM apps? Thank you all, sorry for my bad english
No Windows 8 device supports Windows Phone apps directly, they have to be ported by the developer to run on a Windows RT/8 device. If you had an app on WP you will have to download a separate Windows version again and if a paid app, will have to pay for it again on Windows.
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Hi!
I am going to buy the Pro version of Surface.. I am not a developer and I don't know much more about technical details.
I read that Windows RT doesn't support .exe files because of ARM CPU, instead of Surface Pro which does it. It's strange to me to accept the idea that Surface Pro, with Intel architecture, supports .exe files and all of Windows Phone apps, developed for ARM devices.
So, It really supports all ARM apps? Thank you all, sorry for my bad english
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All Windows Store apps (well, nearly all) are compiled for Arm and x86, and work on Pro and RT.
Windows Phone Store is not the same store, and no windows phone apps run on Windows 8 Pro or RT (well, except under the emulator on Win8 Pro)
Surface Pro is just Windows 8 on x86, like on your laptop or desktop
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All Windows Store apps (well, nearly all) are compiled for Arm and x86, and work on Pro and RT.
Windows Phone Store is not the same store, and no windows phone apps run on Windows 8 Pro or RT (well, except under the emulator on Win8 Pro)
Surface Pro is just Windows 8 on x86, like on your laptop or desktop
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Yep, just like most Android apps
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All Windows Store apps (well, nearly all) are compiled for Arm and x86, and work on Pro and RT.
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It's also more common that the ones that aren't compiled for all three architectures are x86 and x64 only, so the Pro will have a slight advantage there.
Also, for what it's worth, the Surface Pro should support Hyper-V, which would mean you could run the Windows Phone 8 emulator on it, but that's probably not what the OP is talking about in running Windows Phone apps.
I have a windows 6.5 phone, it runs a legacy application that I'm not willing to part with. I cannot upgrade to Windows Phone 7 or 8. It will not run in that environment. This application will run on the real Windows XP-->7-->8. But there is no adequate app on Android or IOS.
I am looking to ditch this phone at some point in the future. What are my options?
1) Can I upgrade to Windows Phone 7-8? -- - And is there an App that employs a 'Windows Mobile 5/6' mode/emulator --- Sorta like on Windows 7 they have a Windows XP Mode (virtual machine), that allows Legacy incompatible apps to run.
2) Can I dual-boot a cool modern Android phone with Windows Mobile 5/6? - How to do it...
3) Really odd one.. Is there a phone with the real Windows 7, or the Real Windows 8 (not RT) on it. Not the phone OS's. If so, how cumbersome would it be to operate? or expensive? or big?
But I also don't want to spend $500> either.
Microsoft has made windows 10 S for arm devices. Do you guys think it would be possible to get windows 10 S on this device?