Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Windows Phone 8.1 includes universal apps and lots of feature updates


Microsoft has started sharing its Windows Phone 8.1 Software Development Kit (SDK) with developers, and the inevitable leaks have begun. Over on Reddit, one developer has been documenting all of the updates discovered in the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK. The first major change appears to be the initial signs of a Windows Phone and Windows RT merger. While iOS and Android both allow developers to build apps across phones and tablets, Microsoft has been hinting that it would follow a similar path. Windows Phones 8.1 includes support for "Universal Apps" that let developers build Windows Store and Windows Phone Store apps from the same shared HTML and JavaScript code. Effectively, this means Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 can run near-identical...


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