A couple of weeks ago, I had a discussion with a colleague on different ways to bring html based applications to apps.
If you are not doing html based technologies I would invest time into learning the xamarin toolchain, as it allows you to reuse .net code on different platforms through a cross-compiling process but use native ui technologies to get that custom look.
Since the solution would target Windows 8 first, he showed me a Visual Studio 2013 template called “Web Application Template” that allows you to define how to host a web page within the context of a Windows 8 Store App. The content is all in your html web site, but using WAT you can declare how to handle things such as :
- Live Tiles & Push Notifications
- Handle the Share charm
- Handle the Search charm
- Navigation Bars
- Override CSS, hide HTML elements
- and more…
Go to the web site and try it out for yourself !
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