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How the UWP Community Toolkit helps Windows developers easily create well-designed and user-friendly apps In August 2016, we introduced the open-source UWP Community Toolkit. It simplifies app development and enables developers to collaborate and contribute new capabilities on top of the Windows SDK for Windows 10. Developers can leverage the UWP Community Toolkit to build UWP apps for any Windows 10 device, including PC, mobile, Xbox, the Internet of Things and Hololens. We recently caught up with two developers who have used the toolkit to help create their apps. Hermit Dave developed the Daily Mail Online app for Windows. It’s the official Windows app for the Daily Mail, a British newspaper. David Bottiau is a member of the Github organization, UWP Squad. He developed a Windows 10 app for TVShow Time, a site that helps you track your favorite TV [ more… ]

CSS Custom Properties in Microsoft Edge Beginning with EdgeHTML 15 in the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft Edge introduces support for CSS Custom Properties, a new primitive value type to fully cascade variables across CSS properties. You can preview CSS Custom Properties in Windows Insider Preview builds beginning with EdgeHTML 15.15061. Check out our Custom Properties Pooch demo to see them in action! Check out our Custom Properties Pooch demo to see CSS Custom Properties in action! What are CSS Custom Properties? SASS/LESS and other pre-processors have been offering variables in CSS for years, which is one of the reasons why, in an informal poll, ~75% of polled web developers incorporate these tools in their day to day workflow. However, the biggest downfall of these tools is that they are effectively a “find & replace” of the specified value. This [ more… ]

Project Rome for Android Update: Now with App Services Support Project Rome developers have had a month to play with Project Rome for Android SDK (Android SDK), and we hope you are as excited about its capabilities as we are! In this month’s release, we are thrilled to bring you support for app services. Before, we offered the ability to launch a URI from an Android device onto a Windows device. However, the SDK was limited to sending a URI. With the introduction of app services, now you can easily message between Android and Windows devices. What are App Services? In short, app services allow your app to provide services that can be interacted with from other applications. This enables an Android application to invoke an app service on a Windows application to perform tasks behind the scenes. This blog [ more… ]