On August 17th, I reviewed use of the UWP Community Toolkit in practical application, used in several privately published apps. These apps were commissioned by Hewlett Packard to illustrate commercial uses of the HP Elite X3 Windows 10 Mobile phone. We checked out the code behind these apps with permission from HP.
The apps themselves focus on three core verticals:
1) Public Safety – apps to support officers in the field
2) Field Service – supporting a cable field service technician
3) Home Health – supporting a visiting care provider.
All show off Windows 10 UWP as a versatile platform, capable of easily adapting to phone, tablet, or desktop, as well as the HP Elite X3’s additional ability to support various hardware expansion jackets and docking options.
The UWP Community Toolkit is an open source project designed to make Windows 10 the easiest platform to build great apps for. More information can be found here:
http://www.uwpcommunitytoolkit.com/
The official UWP CTK demo app is here:
http://aka.ms/uwptoolkitapp
The presentation itself was all demos, digging in on the CTK toolkit sample app, looking at it in a locally cloned git repo, and showing how we used the same controls in the X3 demo apps.
The UWP CTK is a great set of tools to jumpstart Windows 10 Dev with.
Our next meeting on September 21st, (2017) we’ll take a look at another great “Hit the ground running” UWP resource, the App Samples.
