Windows 10 – Cross device development
Windows 10 – Cross device development
Last night I attended for the first time to a developer event which was organized by Microsoft. The title of the event was “Cross device development with the Universal Windows Platform”. The start was about 6pm in Cologne Media Park 7 which turned out to be an excellent location. There were some snacks and drinks for the audience as well as some beer and pizza during the break.
But of course the most interesting part of the evening were the topics of the speaking. Marco Richardson ( TileGarage ) spoke most of the time, but was assisted by a teammate whose name I sadly forgot. The topics of the evening were:
- What are Universal Windows Apps
- Adaptive Code
- Adaptive UI
- Windows Cortana
- Bridges
- Application integration
- Hosted Web Apps
Supported by some live examples Marco showed the main possibilities as well as some deeper insight views to the new technologies. It was very interesting and easy to follow, although I have never developed a single piece of code for Windows 8 Apps / Mobile Apps. I was very happy to see the coding style for UWA is very similar to the development of WPF applications which I am very used to. Still the UI definition is done with XAML and the coding can either be done with C#, VB or C++ . The main goal for UWA is to code one application for multiple devices which can be hard to accomplish because some devices need different UI. I think the idea to have one shared core for applications as well as extensions for mobile / xbox / desktop is pretty smart and I will soon try it myself.
For those of you who are interested in the presentation contents I will present a link to it as soon as I get it myself.
UPDATE : Here are the Slides available for download