Minecraft Pocket Edition

Pocket Edition
On 16 August 2011, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released for the Xperia Play on the Android Market as an early alpha version. It was then released for several other compatible devices on 8 October 2011.[105][106] An iOS version of Minecraft was released on 17 November 2011.[107]

A port was made available for Windows Phones shortly after Microsoft acquired Mojang.[108] The port concentrates on the creative building and the primitive survival aspect of the game, and does not contain all the features of the PC release. On his Twitter account, Jens Bergensten said that the Pocket Edition of Minecraft is written in C++ and not Java, due to iOS not being able to support Java.[109] Gradual updates are periodically released to bring the port closer to the PC version.[110] On 10 December 2014, in observance of Mojang's acquisition by Microsoft, a port of Pocket Edition was released for Windows Phone 8.1.[111] On 18 January 2017, Microsoft announced that it would no longer maintain the Windows Phone versions of Pocket Edition.[112]

On 2 April 2014, a version of Minecraft based on the Pocket Edition was released for the Amazon Fire.[113] On 29 July 2015, a version of Minecraft based on the Pocket Edition was released for Windows 10.[114] On 19 December 2016, the full version of Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Windows 10, along with the release of the game based on the Pocket Edition for the Apple TV.[12]