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Agreed on the Covid part.


STOKED!


Completely understand. When ever one is making a product there are trade offs and priorities. We are going to continually iterating on the product. So hopefully we can increase its usefulness to you over time.

What are you currently working on?


Hey all, I am on the Mobile Center team. We are creating amazing work flows for app developers of any language or platform. From React Native to Swift.

Please share any of your questions or areas of the mobile app creation process that are most frustrating / annoying / time-consuming to you.


Here is the home page :)

Let us know if you have any questions.


MSFT Program Manager here.

Would love to learn how to better make products for mobile developers.


If you want a Cambrian explosion of apps using Microsoft infrastructure and ad networks) if you're still in that business), just write QuickBASIC for mobile. That compiles to native code. Not a joke. Windows RT and all windows Mobile editions would have had an honest chance if Microsoft still remembered how to use its heritage instead of pushing for bleeding edge architecture astronaut frameworks every two years.

Compilers and interpreters are supposed to simplify development and automate as much as possible. don't make people learn new bibles of APIs every time an executive gets on stage to announce new products and software.

Give the simple, obvious stuff a try once in a while. Get back to BASICs.


Better support for Realm. All our apps (native apps both on iOS and Android) are build around Realm as the shared data model and while I prefer Windows as my dev platform the lack of support for Realm in Visual Studio and the fact that there is only a Mac version of the Realm data browser really keeps me from going back to VS. Also we might have considered experimenting with Xamarin, but the Realm support there is also pretty weak (same problems with lack of VS integration, sync feature not supported yet, no UWP version).




I hear that. Are you going to be affected by this?


Ha! True :) Thanks for the tip! Will keep that in mind for the next one.


Hello!

I am a PM at Microsoft and we are looking to learn about how we can help mobile app developers work faster and build better apps.

Can you share your thoughts?

Best, -Joe


The 3rd question behaves incorrectly, if I answer with "Other(please specify)" as answer, it's still not accepted. You will probably lose a lot of answers because of that and your poll will be skewed.


Thanks for the feedback on that! Editing now!


Updated should be fixed.


From the linked page: "Open only to legal residents of the 50 U.S. and D.C". So, no, apparently I can't...


Sorry about that. We are giving away a Surface 3 to one lucky respondent and it is hard to do that outside the US.


Still very much care about your feedback!


Hey All, I am a PM at Microsoft and we looking to learn how we can best help mobile app developers make awesome apps faster / better.

Please let me know any questions / thoughts!


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