JackPanzer
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Is Windows 8 a good platform to build apps for?
Hello my dear community! I've been busy these past weeks and now I have a little free time that I want to spend here.
I've been planning to build an application, just for fun and to learn how to target a specific platform and what consideration I must have when deploying the application into a certain OS.
I like multiplatform frameworks and what they let me do with them such as QT, Java (specially desktop apps with netbeans)... and here comes my fav: .net(*cough* mono *cough*), but now I have to be a little bit serius about this topic.
As you may know, there's been some time since MS released Windows 8 but I didn't see or percieve that the Windows Store is growing and meeting the users need, and I feel like they still use the Desktop instead the ModernUI apps and I took some time to explore the store and I didn't see any specially useful application or apps that would make me decide to erase my Win7 installation, so when I'm planning to do an application these "facts" (more like opinions) make me think about if Windows 8 is a good platform to deploy an application.
I want to hear your opinions because I want to make apps for Windows 8 but I don't know if its worth the efforts needed to learn how to make ModerUI apps and the benefits that I'll get if I do so, especially when I'm not quite good at graphic design to make a nice looking app.
Thank you for your time and sorry if I mistook the section where this post should be, but due to that I'm asking as a coder I though that this would be the right section.
Happy coding!
Hello my dear community! I've been busy these past weeks and now I have a little free time that I want to spend here.
I've been planning to build an application, just for fun and to learn how to target a specific platform and what consideration I must have when deploying the application into a certain OS.
I like multiplatform frameworks and what they let me do with them such as QT, Java (specially desktop apps with netbeans)... and here comes my fav: .net(*cough* mono *cough*), but now I have to be a little bit serius about this topic.
As you may know, there's been some time since MS released Windows 8 but I didn't see or percieve that the Windows Store is growing and meeting the users need, and I feel like they still use the Desktop instead the ModernUI apps and I took some time to explore the store and I didn't see any specially useful application or apps that would make me decide to erase my Win7 installation, so when I'm planning to do an application these "facts" (more like opinions) make me think about if Windows 8 is a good platform to deploy an application.
I want to hear your opinions because I want to make apps for Windows 8 but I don't know if its worth the efforts needed to learn how to make ModerUI apps and the benefits that I'll get if I do so, especially when I'm not quite good at graphic design to make a nice looking app.
Thank you for your time and sorry if I mistook the section where this post should be, but due to that I'm asking as a coder I though that this would be the right section.
Happy coding!
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