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the common latte is typically a bit of a pricey choice down at the coffee shop

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but now there's a kind of latte you won't have to pay for and no i'm not

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talking about having someone give you a starbucks gift card which sounds like

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kind of a weird situation please buy me a gift card that's right i'm talking

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about project latte a microsoft endeavor designed to get Android apps to run on

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Windows hold on a minute isn't it already

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possible to do that well sort of some apps can be emulated with third party

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programs while others might have an equivalent in the Windows store that

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were specifically coded for Windows facebook messenger is a great example of

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this but built-in support from microsoft is a welcome change if you have apps

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you're always using that don't have a Windows edition and should be more

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reliable than outside emulators but how does it work and what can you expect

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that's what we're here for it turns out that Windows already has a feature built

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in called Windows subsystems for Linux or wsl wsl allows users to run a Linux

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environment within Windows and although it's primarily targeted at developers it

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looks like project latte is going to be built on top of wsl as Android is a

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Linux based operating system in fact microsoft has already used wsl to add

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Windows support for gui based Linux programs so giving users the ability to

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do more than just punch things in at a command line is a hurdle microsoft has

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already cleared they've been training a long time this would mean that instead

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of having to significantly recode apps for Windows instead of Android

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developers could just port their apps over to Windows without having to change

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them much at all hopefully this will mean that we'll see a lot of popular apps popping up on Windows soon after

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project latte drops and will almost definitely mean an experience less

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clunky than tethering to your pc with that temperamental your phone app no

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your phone however there's one major caveat to all

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this running an Android app properly isn't just a matter of supporting Linux

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a huge number of apps also rely on a set of apis called google play services

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which you may have seen updating on your phone every now and then no your phone

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and wondered oh what the heck is that play services hook into apps in many

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different ways for example an app can ask play services to handle sign in

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retrieve saved games issue notifications through the Android os get app updates

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access google maps make payments cast video to tv and much more basically if

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an app talks to google services in any way it goes through play services in

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order to do it and unfortunately microsoft can't just slap play services

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onto project latte unilaterally

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as for now google restricts play services to devices running chrome os or

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Android and even though project latte might be an Android-like layer sitting

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on top of Windows it doesn't make your pc an Android device according to google

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anyway of course this doesn't mean that project latte is suddenly just dead in the water

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or coffee as it were

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i don't like that one there are apps that don't rely on play

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services that should in theory work just fine from the get-go and it's not out of

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the realm of possibility that google will allow microsoft to port play

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services to Windows at some point app developers could also tweak their apps

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to run in a way that doesn't rely on google services which will probably be

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less tedious than rewriting the whole app for an x86 platform but when exactly

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might we expect to see project latte on our machines for better or for worse the

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current rumor is that we could see it as part of a major Windows update in fall

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2021 until then keep on swiping and

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remember not to spill an actual latte on your keyboard keyboards don't drink coffees

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