Brilliant…but I can’t use it!
I no longer uses Android as this is too much of a security mess! (my network router kept capturing and alerting me of dodgy IP packets with Trojan, Private Data Leaks and other Malicious Code sent to and from China/Russia/US (and other countries) to a recent Android tablet!).
I use Windows 10 Mobile at home and the Smartthings Windows Phone app, which hasn’t been updated for a long time! Any update on a Windows 10 (UWP) version ???
It would be excellent if your mobile app software team could create a windows app as a UWP app (Universal Windows Platform) app. This way the same Smartthings UWP app could run on:
- Windows 10 Mobile
- Windows 10 Desktop PC
- Windows 10 2in1 tablets and laptop (Surface, HP, Samsung, Dell, etc)
- Xbox (in your living room?)
- Hololens (that would be cool technologies and a solid (marketing) demonstrator, even though I can’t afford an hololens!)
- upcoming Windows 10 VR headsets ( a similar experience to Hololens but in VR and far more affordable! starting price $299.00 for a Windows 10 headset).
All this with one single code baseline to maintain…
Event better, Microsoft provide a “bridge” to reuse most of the iOS app code and create a UWP app from it (ie reuse the Objective-C code and compile in UWP app)! Many have done that already (Facebook, Instagram, candy crush (was first), etc)
iOS bridge: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/
Also, with Xamarin you can develop one code base and distribute on all OS (iOS, Android and UWP Windows 10)!
Please Smartthings DO invest in the Windows 10 ecosystem with a UWP app!
I hope you will consider this, as I am sure many of your users would also love to be able to access Smartthings from their Windows devices, be it a PC, tablet, VR headset, Xbox or Mobile!
Tony.