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I'm literally working on a Windows Phone 8 app this instant. I took five mins out to check HN. I agree with the sentiment though - UWP is the way to go

• ductionist 9y ago
  You're an endangered species ;) Why are you still working on a Winphone 8 app if I may ask?
  • roryisok 9y ago
    Purely for my own use. My primary phone is a wp8.1 handset. I want to replace OneNote with an app that uses text files on dropbox as a datastore. That way I can write on the phone and pick it up later on the desktop like I can with one note, but also not worry about vendor lock in OneNote had a week long outage on wp8/.1 earlier this year. MS were slow to fix because wp8 is no longer supported. In fact I believe it only got fixed because it also affected xbox logins somehow. I'm moving away from OneNote because of that, but I like my old Lumia
    • lostmsu 9y ago
      I've upgraded my unsupported Ativ S to Windows 10 Mobile.
      • roryisok 9y ago
        how did that go?
        • lostmsu 9y ago
          Took long time to do it right. Camera doesn't focus and minimal brightness turns screen off (which is nearly impossible to restore). Those are the only problems thought.
• currywurst 9y ago
  Is it possible to target Windows Phone 8 with UWP ?
  • roryisok 9y ago
    No. UWP is windows phone 10 only. However on practice the core code had not changed massively. UWP also won't work on Windows 8 or 8.1. I have a moderately successful win 8 app which I'm updating to UWP. It's taking forever though. I keep rewriting and refactoring as i learn better ways to do things. I need a kick up the ass to get launched