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Road to Surface Duo Xamarin App (#rTsd)

This is a work in progress Universal Windows Platform (UWP) project which is intended to feature most of the new features that makes the upcoming Microsoft Surface Neo unique. It will use the awesome German Dr. Windows as data source for its articles.

tl;dr

This is neither an offical Dr. Windows app nor anything other than a highly motivated playground to dive deep into the modern UWP app ecosystem with a dedicated usecase in mind. This project is written and owned by a beginner and meant for beginners. It would be perfect if experts could mentor the project - but this is just a mind in the clouds.

If you are looking for the siblings app that's based on Xamarin.Forms to work with the Sutface Duo, please see the GitHub repository tscholze/xamarin-road-to-surface-duo.

Prerequirements

• Windows 10
• Visual Studio 2019
• Installed UWP Visual Studio plugins

Other programms I used

• Microsoft OneNote as information storage around the idea of the app
• Microsoft Teams to clarify open question with the Dr. Windows team
• Visual Studio Code for all, except source code editing, writings like mark down files
• Git Bash for Git operations outside of Visual Studio

Features

• Good looking, hopefully (in my opinion)
• Utilizes Surface Neo features
• Lists articles of Dr. Windows
• Lists videos of Dr. Windows Youtube Channel
• Detail article view
• Share functionality

App screenshots

Caution

Due to the early days of the Surface Neo, there is no emulator or a SDK. I try to update this project with new features until it is actual runable.

Update The Surface Neo emulator required Windows 10 Pro or higher. I do not own a license for this kind of Windows 10 version. As long as I cannot run it on an emulator, I'll pause the development on this app.

Keep in mind

This app is purely build for having fun! All features have room for improvements or could be done more elegant.

Contributing

Feel free to improve the quality of the code. It would be great to learn more from experienced C#, Xamarin and Azure developers. Please use the "default" workflow of contributing to this project.

1. Open an issue and describing your idea or bug finding
2. Fork repository
3. Fix bug / add enhancement in well named feature branch with issue number (e.g. user.name/2-added-app-icon)
4. Add the issue number to your commit message (e.g. #2 Added new app icon)
5. Create pull request (PR) from your feature branch to this master branch
6. Please keep in touch with your PR to answer upcoming questions
7. If your PR got merged, check if you are listed in the "Authors" section of the readme

Authors

Just me, Tobi.

Links

• Dr Windows news portal and community

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details. Dependencies or assets maybe licensed differently.