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Manic
Manic

Reputation: 223

windows phone 8 and windows 8 tablet

I'm wondering how to develop an app for both Windows Phone 8 and a Windows 8 tablet? When creating a new Windows Phone project in Visual Studio, I don't see any options to target phone and tablet devices like in Xcode. Are there any guidelines or tutorials on how to create the same app for both devices?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2166

Answers (2)

kls
kls

Reputation: 591

As mentioned you need to create two separate projects.

It is possible to create a library called Portable Class Library where you can put code that can be shared between a Windows Phone 8 app and a Windows Store app. See Maximize code reuse between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8

Another technique mentioned in the article is to use MVVM to be able to separate UI (which differs more between platforms) from logic (which is easier to share).

Upvotes: 2

Gambit
Gambit

Reputation: 2525

Although they are using the same core, Windows 8 (RT) and Windows Phone 8 are distinct operating systems. This is different that iPhone/iPad which both run iOS.

You will need to create individual projects for Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT. If you are coding in C#/XAML, the code should be fairly portable between the two platforms. Here is a good session from the Build conference on how to leverage your code across Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

Upvotes: 2

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