GitHub has been offering an official GitHub app for Mac OSX from quite a while now, and now they have launched one for Windows as well. Git on Windows has never been as well supported as it has been on Linux, however now with an official client for Windows there is a good set of tools including a GUI for Windows as well. The new GitHub app features all the Git command line tools, and even comes with support for PowerShell — which is Microsoft’s answer to Linux’s much better command line shell. With its integration with PowerShell it can offer auto-completions for Git commands, making it much simpler to use via the command line. While it does offer integration with PowerShell, one can also optionally use the standard command line, Git Bash, or even a custom command line...

With both Tizen and Android being open platforms, there is an opportunity to enable running applications of one platform on another. RIM took this approach with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, which can run Android apps that were recompiled for the platform. ACL or Android Compatibility Layer by OpenMobile offers a similar solution for Tizen. It adds support for running any Android application in its unmodified state without the need for recompilation. Unlike BlueStacks, which allows running Android applications on Windows, this is a not a software one can download on their Tizen device to make it compatible with Android. If an OEM wishes to provide support for Android, they can modify the kernel and add support for Android applications in the very core. Android has accrued a huge...

Even as Google and Oracle are involved in patent litigation over the use of Java in Android, Xamarin showcases an experimental version of Android build on C# rather than Java.Xamarin is the company currently working on Mono, an open source toolkit that is compatible with Microsoft’s .NET Framework. Xamarin claims that their implementation of the .NET runtime is more mature and performant than Android Dalvik JVM. Xamarin created tools for creating Android and iOS applications using .NET and C#, however they also decided to experiment with the possibility of going much deeper and completely replacing the use of Java on Android with C# instead. This has lead to what they now call the XobotOS.Since Android uses Java heavily, this was no easy task, and Xamarin used automatic,...