Hi All,
I’m the developer of Appy Weather, and have just released my second Windows app (and first UWP) Appy Text:
Appy Text is a super fast + lightweight text editor. Immersive too – more content, less chrome. If you’re a Notepad user but have been looking for a charmingly simple, modern and free alternative then look no further. Made (carefully) for PC, tablet and phone. And by going Premium for a small price, you get worthwhile extras. Like tabs. Auto-saving. Markdown support. Dark and sepia themes. There’s a 30-day free Premium trial to help you decide.
To celebrate its launch the Premium in-app purchase is on sale for a limited time.
You can download it here: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh51knm.
And if you like it, please let Mary ‘Notepad’ Jo know 😉
— Bardi
skane2600
<p>In some ways this app illustrates the problem I have with the whole UWP concept. Given the tiny space available on a phone, it makes sense to use icons, but on the desktop descriptive text would make the app more user friendly. It's the classic WORE dilemma: should the program be consistent from one platform to another, or should it be the best it can be on each platform? Of course, making the latter choice involves doing more platform-specific work which somewhat undermines the advantages of a "Universal" platform. </p><p><br></p><p>I also noticed that on the desktop there's a lot of empty space on the left and right of the text area. I'm not using the Premium features and perhaps I've missed some configuration options.</p><p><br></p><p>I admit I'm better at making negative comments than positive ones. I'll spend more time looking at it later.</p><p><br></p><p>Having said all that, congrats on your first UWP app. Now if developers could actually make a living entirely from writing UWP apps, things would be great.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#99062"><em>In reply to Bardi Golriz:</em></a></blockquote><blockquote> "The main purpose behind using iconography consistently regardless of device/screen size was to have as little UI as possible with the idea that the content is what matters."</blockquote><blockquote>As I recall that was the philosophy championed by Wordperfect back in the day. I don't think that labeled text diminishes the importance of the content, but there are certainly those who agree with you.</blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote>Thanks for your detailed and thoughtful response.</blockquote>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#99241">In reply to Bardi Golriz:</a></em></blockquote><p>In a Windows Form application creating a "always on top" window is trivial (set topMost property to true). Unfortunately, it's not possible in UWP according to MS expert Raymond Chen: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35594874/c-sharp-windows-universal-10-topmost-window</p><p><br></p><p>The interesting thing about his answer is the clear implication that Metro/Modern/UWP was actually designed for phones and tablets, not really for the desktop.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#99280">In reply to skane2600:</a></em></blockquote><p>Now I wonder if you took an "always on top" Windows Forms application and used the desktop bridge to convert it to UWP, would it stay on top when it ran on full Windows? I'd try it, but I'm not curious enough to pay for the Pro version of Windows 10 to find out.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#99440">In reply to Bardi Golriz:</a></em></blockquote><p>When they add multi-window capability to Continuum they might consider adding this feature since "always on top" is meaningful in that context.</p>