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Post by Holly on Dec 17, 2016 13:15:16 GMT
Hello, I love your app and use it on various cars. Being an automotive mechanic myself, I regularly use reinforced Notebooks (Toughbook, etc), which are made for rough environments and don't break so easily, but booting from a flash drive with Android x86 installed on it, is slow, experimental and brutally annoying to handle. Releasing a PC based version (either UWP or Desktop) would enable many people to switch from VCDS or Bosch to Obdeleven without additional hardware or advanced knowledge in IT. Additionally it would expand your customer base to independent car workshops, people without Android devices and people who don't want to pay over 300 bucks for an Hex-Adapter from VCDS. Since there are development environments like Xamarin you could develop for Windows, iOS and Android simultaneously without rewriting for each platform with C# which is very close to Java.
I really hope you'll consider it.
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Post by pcjabber on Dec 28, 2016 5:48:01 GMT
UWP (aka Metro) would involve an extensive amount of development time to port from Android. Even a port to C# isn't as straightforward as you might think. Just my $0.02. You could try to set up an Android emulator on your PC though. You can't use the pre-built installer from Android Studio though because it doesn't support Bluetooth. You can try something like this though: niro-offonatangent.blogspot.fr/2011/06/bluetooth-support-on-android-emulator.htmlHope this helps!
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Post by labpedro on Jan 6, 2017 0:10:21 GMT
Sorry for piping in here, and I'm not sure about a pc version, however if the app was written using Xamarin, that would allow cross platform integration to Android, iOs and Windows mobile platforms (we use that where I work)
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