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API contracts in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) allow developers to dynamically detect features and adapt apps across different device families and OS versions. This enables creating adaptive apps that respond to varying hardware capabilities, version-specific APIs, and platform-specific features. By using API contracts, apps can gracefully handle scenarios where certain APIs are unavailable, ensuring compatibility and a consistent user experience. The approach supports responsive UI, version adaptation, and platform adaptation, helping developers target a wide range of Windows 10 devices while taking advantage of new capabilities as they become available.
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    Dynamically detecting features with API contracts (10 by 10)

    Brent Rector, a principal program manager on Windows helped write this post. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) allows you to write your app once and target multiple device families, while also taking advantage of new APIs introduced on later versions of the OS as well as using unique APIs...
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    Expanding the Universal Windows Platform at Build 2015

    Starting today at Link Removed in San Francisco, we’re going deep on details around Windows 10. This morning, Link Removed described our goal to bring Windows 10 to a billion devices over the next two-three years, and showed off a number of innovations that will help us reach more individual...
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