No Feathercoin Window 8 app?
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David from Coindesk has commented on twitter:
“Strange observation: The @FeatherCoinHQ meetup in Oxford was the most Windows Phones I’ve seen in one place. However, there’s no FTC/WP8 app”
https://twitter.com/davidgilson/status/362535166138265601I have to say that’s an astute observation, but surely the problem here is that too many of us have bad taste in mobile phones and not the lack of an app? :P
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David from Coindesk has commented on twitter:“Strange observation: The @FeatherCoinHQ meetup in Oxford was the most Windows Phones I’ve seen in one place. However, there’s no FTC/WP8 app”
https://twitter.com/davidgilson/status/362535166138265601I have to say that’s an astute observation, but surely the problem here is that too many of us have bad taste in mobile phones and not the lack of an app? :P
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[/quote]If you look at the chart as to which producer has the largest marked, i see why people focus to deliver for IOS/Android platform.
Of course there coming more and more windows 8 tablets.
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WP8 is still a really small market, though one I will be a part of soon. (Currently on 7.8 and upgrading soon.) I’d be willing to look into this as I’m currently working with the .NET stack and it would be a relatively simple transition. I don’t have a lot of time on my hands, but porting code from an open source Android wallet to WP8 should not be ridiculously difficult. I’ll try to see if I can come up with some estimates for time after going through some source from similar apps on iOS and Android. I wouldn’t be able to do any real testing until I get a full device, which is likely 6-8 weeks out, but I could use the emulator for the time being.
Microsoft does appear to have issues with apps that initiate payment in-app, like this [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/1ahavh/]Blockchain.info app for WP8[/url]. If someone is willing to investigate this aspect further, it would help me to know whether or not this is worth pursuing. (I don’t want to invest a lot of time only to have the app rejected by Microsoft.)
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If you make a smartphone app it should be convertes to all of the main systems … same as on the pc
Android, IOs, Win8 …
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I don’t think you understand development, Markus. Developing for more than one platform, especially mobile platforms, is not generally as simplistic as some people think. In many cases, it’s much more complicated. You’re dealing with multiple frameworks, UIs, languages, and OS and device quirks.
There are solutions available that will allow compilation for all mobile platforms, but I don’t believe anything is currently at release stage right now. Xamarin.Mobile does support iOS, Android, and Windows, but is a preview right now and it comes at a hefty price.
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There seems to be quite a few Bitcoin apps for Windows Phone but I cannot see a Bitcoin wallet.
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Yeah, that concerns me. My guess is that, if it were possible, someone would have released a Bitcoin wallet by now. The fact that no one has makes me wonder if Microsoft won’t allow it.
A crypto wallet [i]might[/i] be able to be integrated with the WP8 Wallet (it supports store loyalty cards, so that gives me hope), but I haven’t looked at the API yet, so I have no idea if that’s actually possible.
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since w8 is c# mostly and android is java it shouldnt be that
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If Microsoft will allow a port of current wallets, you’re quite right. However, if all indications are correct, a straight port won’t be possible due to Microsoft’s restrictions. That will make things a bit more complicated, though how complicated is uncertain at this point.
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Youre right, i know nothing about developmemt but if there is a will, there is a way - as always in life.
Imo as an android user, the assortment of ftc apps is verry poor (3 apps) - will change in the future hopefully.
Further i would only use a wallet app from a 3rd party develiper to carry around a few coins - to riski imo.There seems actually no need for apps ( why should i carry around my coins in a app if i cant use it nowhe?), otherwise someone of our community would work on developing one, time will hopefully come and maybe we will see a UNOCS app to.
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Perhaps we need to make a Solitaire game and include the Feathercoin wallet in the About menu :P
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Perhaps we need to make a Solitaire game and include the Feathercoin wallet in the About menu :P
[/quote]Hehe.
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Was hoping to look into this over the weekend, but it appears I’ll be spending most of my weekend working (again). Here’s hoping I can get to it next weekend…
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I reviewed Microsoft’s app policies last night. It looks like the issue with the Blockchain app was the dev was a third-party providing login to a site he doesn’t own and not displaying the HTTPS data or URL. It does not appear that MS has any policies that would preclude publishing a wallet.
I’m going to spend some time this weekend on a prototype. It will take time, but a direct port of existing wallets should be possible.
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[quote name=“Aldanga” post=“25164” timestamp=“1376183879”]
I’m going to spend some time this weekend on a prototype. It will take time, but a direct port of existing wallets should be possible.
[/quote]Sounds great :)
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I just barely started into the feathercoinj source, and I’m thinking this is gonna take a lot longer than I anticipated. bitcoinsharp hasn’t been updated in a couple years, so forking that is not a good idea. I need a valid library to make a suitable client-only wallet. (Downloading the entire blockchain on a mobile device is absolutely [b]not [/b]feasible.) If feathercoinj is stable, I can use that by converting it to a DLL, but I think a native .NET implementation would be the best long-term solution.
Anyways, I’ll see what I can do with the feathercoinj library and will discover along the way whether or not it’s going to be good enough for my purposes.
*EDIT*
Changed my mind about the feathercoinj source. The docs appear to have some errors, but the code looks good and is being actively maintained.
