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Emil
Emil

Reputation: 6893

UWP Fall Creators Update and Mobile app?

I am having UWP app in the Microsoft Store which supports Mobile and Desktop min version as 10240 and target version 15063. Now I want to update to Fall Creators update with 16299. My Project is a Xamarin.Forms app and I had recently upgraded to .NET Standard 2.0. I learnt that i must use min version as 16299 (Fall Creators Update). Problem is that Fall Creators Update doesn't support any Mobile application. In order to support older versions of UWP, I must downgrade to .NET Standard 1.4.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 195

Answers (1)

Martin Zikmund
Martin Zikmund

Reputation: 39082

There is no performance difference between .NET Standard 1.4 and 2.0 as .NET Standard is just a "blueprint" of what a particular target platform should offer, not the implementation itself, which is provided by the platform. .NET Standard 1.4 has smaller API surface but otherwise most of the time should suit your needs.

Thing to keep in mind however is that many libraries are either transitioning or planning transition to .NET Standard 2.0 (including Xamarin.Forms), which means developers will slowly be forced to upgrade if they want to use the latest and greatest releases. But I fully understand the need to keep support for Windows 10 Mobile, as I have several apps I want to keep there as well.

When you really need to have min version 16299, you can go in the direction of having multiple Git branches for separate releases - one for pre-16299 builds and one with additional features for 16299 and later.

One library cannot do multi-targeting (like act as 2.0 for Android and iOS while being 1.4 for UWP), but you alternatively could create two libraries (2.0 and PCL), develop in 2.0 and then use Add new item -> Add as link to add a "link" to those files to the PCL library and share them between the two.

Upvotes: 3

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