Microsoft has released a Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android developers

Actually Android (65%) and iOS (59%) are the most popular operating systems among developers. Windows Phone 7 is only. Windows Phone is only 7th in this rank with just 36% of developers working on apps for it.

For Windows Phone to become a success, Microsoft and partners (like Nokia) have to convice the developers to add WP7 at their targets.

Microsoft has already reached out to iPhone app developers with specific WP guidance and an API mapping tool for iOS.

Now Microsoft has released an API mapping tool for Android, and published a white paper "Windows Phone 7 Guide for Android application developers". Microsoft did it because hopes to draw Android developers to Windows Phone.

This summer, it plans to expand the scope of the API Mapping tools to include the features in Mango, the next major upgrade of WP.

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