the common latte is typically a bit of a pricey choice down at the coffee shop
but now there's a kind of latte you won't have to pay for and no i'm not
talking about having someone give you a starbucks gift card which sounds like
kind of a weird situation please buy me a gift card that's right i'm talking
about project latte a microsoft endeavor designed to get Android apps to run on
Windows hold on a minute isn't it already
possible to do that well sort of some apps can be emulated with third party
programs while others might have an equivalent in the Windows store that
were specifically coded for Windows facebook messenger is a great example of
this but built-in support from microsoft is a welcome change if you have apps
you're always using that don't have a Windows edition and should be more
reliable than outside emulators but how does it work and what can you expect
that's what we're here for it turns out that Windows already has a feature built
in called Windows subsystems for Linux or wsl wsl allows users to run a Linux
environment within Windows and although it's primarily targeted at developers it
looks like project latte is going to be built on top of wsl as Android is a
Linux based operating system in fact microsoft has already used wsl to add
Windows support for gui based Linux programs so giving users the ability to
do more than just punch things in at a command line is a hurdle microsoft has
already cleared they've been training a long time this would mean that instead
of having to significantly recode apps for Windows instead of Android
developers could just port their apps over to Windows without having to change
them much at all hopefully this will mean that we'll see a lot of popular apps popping up on Windows soon after
project latte drops and will almost definitely mean an experience less
clunky than tethering to your pc with that temperamental your phone app no
your phone however there's one major caveat to all
this running an Android app properly isn't just a matter of supporting Linux
a huge number of apps also rely on a set of apis called google play services
which you may have seen updating on your phone every now and then no your phone
and wondered oh what the heck is that play services hook into apps in many
different ways for example an app can ask play services to handle sign in
retrieve saved games issue notifications through the Android os get app updates
access google maps make payments cast video to tv and much more basically if
an app talks to google services in any way it goes through play services in
order to do it and unfortunately microsoft can't just slap play services
onto project latte unilaterally
as for now google restricts play services to devices running chrome os or
Android and even though project latte might be an Android-like layer sitting
on top of Windows it doesn't make your pc an Android device according to google
anyway of course this doesn't mean that project latte is suddenly just dead in the water
or coffee as it were
i don't like that one there are apps that don't rely on play
services that should in theory work just fine from the get-go and it's not out of
the realm of possibility that google will allow microsoft to port play
services to Windows at some point app developers could also tweak their apps
to run in a way that doesn't rely on google services which will probably be
less tedious than rewriting the whole app for an x86 platform but when exactly
might we expect to see project latte on our machines for better or for worse the
current rumor is that we could see it as part of a major Windows update in fall
2021 until then keep on swiping and
remember not to spill an actual latte on your keyboard keyboards don't drink coffees
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