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NinadNagwekar
NinadNagwekar

Reputation: 5

Build Windows app compatible for 8.1 and 10

Background:
I am new to Windows app development.
I have installed Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise edition free trial on two machines. (One is running win 8.1 OS and other having win 10 OS)
Then, downloaded windows 10 sdk and mobile emulators. I have created a webview based UWP app which is targeting windows 10.


Problem:
Built UWP app is running perfectly on Windows 10 OS with mobile emulators target version windows 10.
Now, I want the app to run on both windows 8, 8.1 and windows 10 phones.
I have installed windows 10 and windows 8.1 sdk on both machines.
But, it is not allowing me to create a new project to specify minimum sdk version as 8 or 8.1.

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Is there any way to target both 8.1 and 10 versions for mobile with single app, with minimum efforts?

Please suggest.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1823

Answers (2)

Mamoru Satoh
Mamoru Satoh

Reputation: 2710

Here is a summary that which VS can build which app models:

  • VS2019 - UWP (Except for Win10Mobile)
  • VS2017 - UWP
  • VS2015 - UWP, Win8.1 StoreApp, WP8/8.1 StoreApp
  • VS2013 - Win8/8.1 StoreApp, WP8/8.1 StoreAp

(Assume that dev system is Win10 and ignoring the Win32 or others)

(Note - To use the latest Win10 FallCU SDK, you need to use VS2017 or 2019)

For detail, please refer the vs compatibility page:

Upvotes: 3

Ipsit Gaur
Ipsit Gaur

Reputation: 2927

You need to create an app using Windows 8 SDK if you want to target Windows 8 and above versions.

UWP will not work for you because minimum requirement for UWP is Windows 10.

Upvotes: 2

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