minecraft: pocket edition is a mobile version of minecraft for phones and tablets. in 2011, minecraft: pocket edition was released for the android market as an early version. it was then released for other devices in october 2011. an ios version was released on november 2011, and a port was made for windows phones after microsoft bought mojang. the port focuses on the basic building and the survival parts of the game, and does not have all the features of the pc version. on his twitter account, jens bergensten said that the pocket edition of minecraft is in c++ and not java code, because of ios not being able to support java code. however, there now exists a way to play java edition on both android and ios devices.