mobile apps

This blog is the latest in a recurring series about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to build or where to focus your development efforts. With the launch of the unified Dev Center in April, we released...

In this episode Haishi Bai and Link Removed are joined by Chris Anderson from the Mobile Apps team. Chris shares with us about the newly released Node SDK for Azure Mobile Apps. The SDK allows you to build and run Node.js-based mobile backends. This gives you the full power of Node.js without...

ManifoldJS, the tool that turns your web apps into store apps, just got better. With version 0.4.0 you can now build and submit Windows 10 apps from any platform! This short video walks you through the process of building, packaging and submitting a Windows 10 app from your Mac. Link Removed...

Last week, we talked about how you can do Link Removed by Windows 10 customers. This week, we’d like to continue with how to increase customer engagement through some of the most loved features of Windows apps: Live Tiles and toast notifications. If you’re already a Windows app developer, you...

I have just received a long Email from MSN. Briefly, an extract: "We wanted to let you know of some changes. Three of our MSN apps will be discontinued this autumn along with some features on the MSN Food & Drink and MSN Health & Fitness websites. If you have stored any of your data in the...

Hi everyone, today we are releasing a new build to both the Fast and Slow rings. We’re just about two weeks away from beginning to offer Windows 10 to the world, Link Removed. Over the past few days we’ve been preparing our release pipelines and processes, and this build is one step closer to...

Since the month ends with the release of Windows 10, a great way to kick it off is by highlighting the great Windows 10 Universal App Samples available on GitHub. I mean, check out this list of samples! Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples This repo contains the samples that demonstrate the...

We’re here to keep you current on the latest updates to your favorite apps and games. This week we have a great list of the fun apps and top games, like Shazam and Monument Valley that have been updated just in time for the weekend! A group of Gameloft titles also got some updates, several of...

This walkthrough demo will cover setting up a basic Cordova project, setting up a repo in Visual Studio Online, setting up the appropriate environments to handle the targeted platforms for application release, and ensuring quality build results prior to making the definitions live. As there are...

Good evening! June is upon us, and with no shortage of news or updates regarding WindowsForum.com As of the 1st of June: We have worked throughout most of the day to connect with Network Solutions, CloudFlare, ICANN, Google, and a number of other online institutions to resolve a problem that...

Today is a play and learn day. Last month at Build 2015, Microsoft Edge was introduced using a new web app/game that reimagined the age old Flight Simulator in a web world. Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed What's great is that not only can you play the game, but you can learn how it...

Windows App Studio Beta is a free online app creation tool that gives everyone the ability to create an app, regardless of experience. It is designed to help people easily bring an app idea to life by applying text, web content, images, and design concepts to a rich set of customizable...

Hi everyone. I’m Albert, and I lead the Design Team in the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft. First time poster, long time reader, be gentle. Our team designs for Windows phones, tablets, and PCs; for services, such as the Store, accounts, and MSN; for Xbox; and also for emerging experiences...

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...

I try to keep this list down to only 10-15'ish shows but this past week was a huge one for content, series and announcements. One of the big ones was from Scott Guthrie, Azure App Service announcement. Beyond that Windows 10 news, Win10 dev and the coming C# 6/.Net Core 5 and so much more...

Scott Hanselman talks with Scott Hunter about the new Azure App Service API Apps. Scott Hunter will share how this new service helps developers build and consume Cloud APIs and participate in the API economy as well as leverage APIs and connectors as a building block for creating integrated web...

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps! You can scale out easily and tune indices just the way your users want it. Liam explains how the REST API for Azure Search works and how easy it is to plug into an app. You could...

Although there is an option on the Windows 10 for phones technical preview to allow apps to be updated automatically, just like on Windows Phone 8.1, I have always preferred checking for updates manually. read more Continue reading...

Today's project is from Tim Dams, on a device that I'd not seen before, but now that I've seen how Tim is using it and that I can C# it, well... :) A C# Portable Class Library to talk with Smappee API I wrote a small C# portable class library (.NET4.5/WP8.1/Win8) that allow users to talk with...

How do I upload video from Windows 8.0 on my phone to the Onedrive?