I have developed and ported my apps for iOS and Android. In my experience porting from iOS to Android or vice versa is quite straight forward in most cases. The main extra effort so far always came from certain specialities like Widgets for Android, Notifications, WIFI vs BT communication, server communication, etc…. Even UI is quite easy to port.
Now I am thinking about WP 8. In your experience how does this compare to iOS/Android development?
I do not have any real Windows 8 insight yet. Is it closer to iOS or Android – if one can tell ?
Is the learning experience and speed similar to coming from iOS <-> Android ?
I am not asking for an estimate of compared development effort as this depends on too many specialities – I know! (however would be interesting to hear about some experiences)
I am more interested if there is any “better” more efficient approach to Windows 8 app development – coming from iOS or Android?
Many thanks
As SLaks said, you have to redesign the UI to respect the UI guidelines of the platform.
However, on Windows 8, you can create your app with HTML5/CSS/Javascript, or with XAML/C#
I think in your case the most interesting way to make the portage is using the second solution. Maybe you’ll be able to port some of your Java code to C#
Also, keep in mind that Windows 8 is PC and tablet system. So it’s very different from Android/IOS in many ways.