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Originally Posted by SASSBS
chaley +1 for Windows based version.
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There isn't any chance that I will do a specific windows version. If I was going to port to a new platform then I would pick iOS. And that probably isn't going to happen for reasons I have mentioned before.
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A nice universal app would be ideal, I am not a developer but I have read recently that Microsoft is testing/making available tools to port Android and IOS apps to Windows with little to no code changes needed.
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You are talking about Microsoft's Project Astoria, which supposedly allowed porting Android apps to windows more-or-less unchanged. That is the tool I was talking about a few posts back.
Unfortunately Microsoft seems to have delayed, or even canceled, Project Astoria. The iOS project seems to still be running.
@BetterRed, @DoctorOhh: I installed BlueStacks on my desktop PC. Both CC Demo and Full Versions run fine, with the exception that a few settings dialogs have an odd layout. Connecting as a wireless device requires entering an IP address for calibre visible to Bluestacks. I used calibre running on the same PC as the emulator. The full version required creating a Google Play account so it could do the one-time license check. I deleted the account as soon as the license check happened. CC crashes if it wants to do a license check and there isn't any GP account set up.
TBH I am not convinced if this is useful. As DoctorOhh said, calibre runs on the device so I can in theory use it directly. I suppose that having the emulator on a WinPro tablet with limited memory would permit easy downloading and managing subsets of books. It also permits access to reader apps.