will there be another trainz android version?
Short answer: Yes
Slightly longer answer: Not this year.
So, N3V are to forget Android users for at least the rest of this year even though more than eight out of every ten mobile devices sold worldwide run on that platform. We where informed some months ago by the management of N3V that writing apps for the foregoing platform was "very difficult". However, since that statement was made the number of apps on the Google Play Store has risen to almost two and a half million. The foregoing apps have been brought forward by both large developer's and individuals coding in their spare time, and all strive for a position on the fastest growing platform in the world.
I like many enjoy the casual "lightweight" gaming that mobile offers to its users, and in that I own two flagship devises. My main device of the two is a Google Pixel XL phone running on a high end Qualcomm 821 processer. However, as many may well have read, the latest Qualcomm 835 processer being incorporated into the most recent mobile devices is also to be incorporated into a new range of Windows 10 laptops and desktops in preference to Intel architecture.
The above will mean that for the first time a cross platform technology will exist between windows and Android which will be very much to the advantage of app developers wishing to write for both platforms. I believe that a fresh version of Trainz on Android would bring the simulator to a huge new user base, some of who would undoubtedly go on to invest in the PC systems nessicary to run the full version of Tane, Next or whatever.
Nobody least of all myself is asking for Tane on mobile at this point in time or indeed claiming that the foregoing it is possible. However, there are some great simulation apps introduced on Android in recent months demonstrating just what is possible on the platform when the effort, will and skill are brought forward.
Bill
