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Windows/Windows Phone/Windows Universal confusion #8

Open brodycj opened 8 years ago

brodycj commented 8 years ago

Microsoft introduced the "Windows Universal" designation to mean Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows Phone 8.1 then deprecated due to the coming of the UWP (Universal Windows Platform). Also, the Cordova windows target added UWP (Windows 10) and dropped Windows 8 (which is supported by the Cordova windows8 target). Another thing is that it is possible for a someone to develop a Windows Phone 8.1 app using either the windows target or the wp8 target.

I think it would be very easy for a new developer to get confused by all of these ideas.

jessemonroy650 commented 8 years ago

I think it would be very easy for a new developer to get confused by all of these ideas.

I agree, but I don't run the Microsoft marketing machine. Is there a drawing somewhere to explain all this? Do you have one? or should I draw one?

brodycj commented 8 years ago

I will raise a PR when I get a chance (I am on vacation and am busy with a critical issue with for someone).

Windows Universal used to mean separate builds of the same project on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1, as documented by cordova-windows in August 2014: https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/blob/97a07e24d65f47c30558199787cda6c5ca0192f5/README.md

EDIT: also documented by Telerik at: http://www.telerik.com/windows-universal-ui

Now the "Universal Windows Platform" (UWP) means a single build for Windows 10 that runs on all Windows 10 devices, such as desktops, laptops, mobile, and maybe IoT. This is very well documented on the internet, for example (with a nice image): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn894631.aspx

jessemonroy650 commented 8 years ago

Okay. I'll make some accomidation for it. Can you poke me when you get back from vacation. Right now I'm gonna finish up the whitelist stuff, then create a large "demo" set of Applications that use the "core" plugins. It will be one App for each "core" plugin. It is intended for demos, as Cordova/Phonegap recent dropped this from the documentation.

brodycj commented 8 years ago

Will do, I will be back on January 6th (poke me in case I forget). I would also like to thank you for your support in the JIRA reports and Nitobi/PhoneGap forum related to #7.