





The News Experience

The UWP App Experiences are beautiful, cross-device, feature-rich and functional app samples built to demonstrate realistic app scenarios on the UWP platform across PC, Tablet, Xbox and more. Besides being open source on GitHub, each sample is accompanied by at least one blog post and short overview video, and will be published on the Windows Store in the upcoming month to provide easier access for developers.

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Fourth Coffee is a news app that works across desktop, phone, and Xbox One, and offers a premium experience that takes advantage of each device’s strengths including tailored UI for each input modality such as controller on Xbox, touch on tablet and mouse on Desktop.

The Weather Experience

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Atmosphere is a weather app that showcases the use of the popular Unity Engine to build beautiful UWP apps. In addition, the app implements UWP app extensions to enable other developers to extend certain areas of the app, as well as exposes an app service that enables other apps to use that weather information, as illustrated by Fourth Coffee.

The Music Experience

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Backdrop is a cross-platform music app sharing code between UWP and other platforms using Xamarin. It supports background audio on UWP devices and cross-platform device collaboration using SignalR.

The Video Experience

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South Ridge Video is a hosted web application built with React.js and hosted on a web server. The app can easily be converted to a UWP application that takes advantage of native platform capabilities, and can be distributed through the Windows Store as with any other UWP app.

The IoT Experience

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Best For You is a fitness UWP app focused on collecting data from an IoT device using Windows IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Event Hub and Azure Stream Analytics for processing.

The Social Experience

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Adventure Works is a cross-device UWP application for sharing adventures and experiences with fictional friends. It is separated into three parts:

About the samples

These samples have been built and designed for multiple UWP devices and scenarios in mind from the start and are meant to showcase end to end solutions. Any developer can take advantage of these samples regardless of the device type or features they are targeting, and we are looking forward to hearing about your experience on the official GitHub repository.

Happy coding!