webfork wrote:It seems like it only cost a few billion dollars to give up on their mobile platform and start doing stuff on Android. Regardless, I could definitely use a good Android emulator and this looks better than Bluestacks.
Microsoft hasn't given up on Windows Phone.
What happened here is that Microsoft tries to keep Visual Studio relevant in the era of mobile. They were afraid of the possibility that a large number of programmers would abandon Visual Studio because it doesn't support targeting Android or has inadequate tools for Android development. They didn't want to take that risk.