Cyanogen is now letting developers build apps directly into its OS

Cyanogen announced a partnership with Microsoft last year to integrate the software giant’s consumer apps and services into the Cyanogen OS. Cortona, Microsoft’s digital assistant, will come pre-installed and "deeply integrated" on the next version of Cyanogen OS as a result. While Microsoft will be the first to offer such integration on Cyanogen OS, third-party app developers will soon have similar access.

Cyanogen is launching a new Mod platform today that lets third-party apps take advantage of the Cyanogen APIs to directly integrate into the OS. Most of the first-generation mods we’ll see initially will be offered by Microsoft, including the ability for Skype to be integrated directly into the dialer interface or OneNote integration...

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