Road map for UWP support?

[ramaguduri]

Is there a plan to support UWP in near future for the cordova plugins?

[elamalani]

@ramaguduri We don't have any plans to support UWP platform for Cordova apps in App Center.

[convey-gilbert]

A plugin from Microsoft without support for Windows? Really would be awesome for JavaScript developers targeting 2-in-1 devices, like Tablets etc. to support Windows platform, so Microsoft will get a chance for Windows 10 (UWP) devices, to keep that market share.

[dhei]

Hi,

We don't yet have any plans or ETA for support this. Thanks for the understanding.

[convey-gilbert]

"Thanks for the understanding." sounds cynical. You must know what might be best for your company's future… but not-supporting the own platform doesn't look like a plan that's useful in long term. Might better think about that and then find out the understanding ;)

[JasonDingle]

Big companies are still very windows focused and often times have to serve a variety of needs with different customers (even their internal customers could want 3 different platforms). If Microsoft is wanting to target big business and not just the consumer market, they'll need to look at supporting their own platform.

[elamalani]

Hey everyone, we understand your requirements around UWP support for Cordova but unfortunately, it's not in our roadmap and not the top priority work for our team at this time. Please have a look at our roadmap, posted every month, which highlights the current focus for the team. Thanks!

[convey-gilbert]

Your "roadmap" won't be useful for developers who are using the Cordova cross-platform framework and are yet targeting the Windows platform. So either dropping the Windows platform or not using AppCenter is the result of your "roadmap". Since you're supporting UWP apps written in C#, it shouldn't be that much work for you to wrap the client-side interface in Cordova plugins for JavaScript to support Windows beside Android and iOS, too. At the moment, it really looks like that Microsoft has lost the interest in supporting cross-platform developers for it's own platform and push them to build their apps for Android and iOS only. Pls, re-think this ;)

[acceleratorlastorder]

Hi, is there any change regarding this issue, or is it still in "waiting to be in the roadmap" list ?
Thanks.

[russelarms]

Hi guys,

Please kindly note that our team is focused on improving reliability and performance for App Center to around mid-2021. Because of this, we won't be making much progress around most feature requests.
Read more here.