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1. Have an idea
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3. Choose style
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4. Use it!
App Studio builds your app for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 and provides source code which you can edit.
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Ready. Set. Go. Done!
You’ve been thinking about building an app for a while now, you want share your interests with the world, but you just don’t have enough time and even if you did, where would you start?
The answer is Windows App Studio. A free, online app creation tool that allows you to quickly build Windows and Windows Phone apps to publish, test, and share. Make changes, add content, and toggle between phone and tablet views to watch your app come alive.
And if you want to advanced programming features, Windows App Studio generates your source code ready for Visual Studio - a feature no other app-builder tool provides. There is no better day than today, so get started!
Connect with your fans
Musicians, bands, artists, and entrepreneurs are all using Windows App Studio to build their own apps to connect with their fans and find new ones too. Check out how DJ Nano, one of the top Club DJs in the world, built his own Windows and Windows Phone app using App Studio.
Windows App Studio training videos
How to Publish
How to Publish a Windows App Studio app to the Windows Phone Store.
Windows App Studio Walk Through
This 27-minute video will walk you through set-by-step how to build your first app with Windows App Studio Beta.Resources
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Materials for teachers
Check out the 5-hour App Studio Curriculum at App Studio Education. Get your students building apps and extending them with code today!
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Windows App Studio News
Windows App Studio February 2016 update – agenda layout, searching in apps, and other new features
The Windows App Studio team is excited to announce a new update to the service that went live this morning, and this update is packed with robust new features. This update is the first of 2016 and contains new features, some bug fixes, and improvements in the user experience and documentation. With over 200 million Windows 10 devices out in the wild, Windows App Studio provides a great way to reach them directly with your content.
One of the major themes that we’ve been focusing on lately is pr
Windows App Studio December 2015 Update
It’s the end of the year and the holiday season in many parts of the world, so we have one more release this year to celebrate all the App Studio enhancements in 2015, such as the launch of Windows 10 and the November Update. Today’s Windows App Studio Beta update brings some exciting new features that we can’t wait for you to use. There are a couple of big new features, some significant design related improvements, and fun and useful new templates.
The new features in this release focus on thin
Deep Dive: Windows App Studio NuGet packages for Windows 10 Apps
Hello everyone! We hope you've been having a great November. It's so exciting to see how much everyone has been using and enjoying the new Windows 10 features in Windows App Studio that were released as a part of the update at the beginning of the month.
Today we want to get a bit technical and dig into one of the aspects of Windows App Studio that's designed to help when extending your app in Visual Studio, which is the use of NuGet packages. NuGet allows for the easy production and consum
Windows App Studio Release – Windows 10 Store Package support and other new features
The Windows App Studio Windows 10 Store Support Release is now available, allowing you to easily create and publish a universal Windows app in record time with no code required. This release builds on the foundation created with July’s App Studio Windows 10 Preview release. You can directly submit your app to the Store through Dev Center, now with no intermediate step in Visual Studio required. In addition, this release brings a host of other new features.
New Features:
Windows 10 Store Packa
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