Windows App Studio updated with new features and capabilities

Apart from coming up with new and great promotional opportunities for app developers Microsoft now also presents some improvements for Windows App Studio adding 9 languages supported and also introducing Windows Phone 8.1 sideloading. In addition, there have also been some major changes in the layout, structure and design finished up with some basic PCL improvements.

Thus, introducing the basic list provided by Microsoft, we may speak about the following options:

• Windows Phone 8.1 Sideloading – this feature provides the opportunity to generate and quickly test the new Windows App Studio apps thus having faster and better performance.
• 9 new languages added - Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish are added to the interface thus providing the representatives and the users of these languages with more chances of successful and efficient work.
• New Page Layouts – the main trick about this feature is the chance to assign multiple columns of data instead of just one pane generally used for Phone apps. So this lets the developers to test and have better optimized views for phone, tablet, and PC.
• Static Collections and Html - this feature allows to store all the static resources as json or html files in Shared/Assets/Data folder thus enabling easier modification of the created code displaying content in the app.
• Data Bind in Design Time – with the help of this feature you have the chance to make modifications to the layouts and see the changes and the real data even with Blend.
• PCL Improvements – finally, with PCL improvements the developers have the chance to build codes using the Xamarin PCL profile.

Thus, here is one more quite significant and essential thing for the improvement and promotion of Windows Phone apps, enabling the developers to come up with new and interesting apps expanding the Windows Phone Store circle as well.In addition, you may also learn everything more in-detail from Windows official blog.