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Ayan Chatterjee, Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2629-2_1

1. Introduction to Windows Universal

Ayan Chatterjee

(1)Swindon, Wiltshire, UK

Any business aims to maximize profits and minimize the manufacturing costs without compromising the quality of the product. For an application, the way to maximize profits is through an increase in downloads. One of the ways to achieve this is by introducing your application to more than one platform. By reusing code, you can speed up the development process. In summary, the goal is to distribute your application to as many platforms as possible and to reduce the hours it takes to reach this goal.

Windows Store applications are the successor to Windows ...

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