If it is now almost effortless to port the entire app, wouldn't it also be just as effortless to maintain it (i.e. update it)? If so, their point about not wanting to port because it still takes a bunch of time to "maintain" the app will no longer be true, no?
yes i dont get the reason behind the app developer who said this. after porting an app, if let's say you update your android app, you can easily update your windows app as well (to add the features that you added previously to the android app). you dont have to re-edit the parts that you edited earlier for the windows app launch, only the parts that you updated for the android app. basically just copy+paste it, or am I wrong?
I am not a coder but this is how I see it:
1. let's say the game name is fun marathon. I port it from android to windows 10 by editing some codes, let's say the last 10 lines of codes in 5 different files.
2. let's say I add new feature in fun marathon for android, for stage 12-20. For doing this, i add 100 lines of code in 10 different files. I can just copy paste the scripts of those stage 12-20 and add it to my fun marathon windows 10 project folder by editing the exact line of codes in the same files, right? because how I see it, the "part" that I needed to edit to port to Windows 10, i have done it previously when i release the game to Windows 10.