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I'm literally working on a Windows Phone 8 app this instant. I took five mins out to check HN.

I agree with the sentiment though - UWP is the way to go

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You're an endangered species ;) Why are you still working on a Winphone 8 app if I may ask?

Purely for my own use. My primary phone is a wp8.1 handset. I want to replace OneNote with an app that uses text files on dropbox as a datastore. That way I can write on the phone and pick it up later on the desktop like I can with one note, but also not worry about vendor lock in

OneNote had a week long outage on wp8/.1 earlier this year. MS were slow to fix because wp8 is no longer supported. In fact I believe it only got fixed because it also affected xbox logins somehow. I'm moving away from OneNote because of that, but I like my old Lumia

I've upgraded my unsupported Ativ S to Windows 10 Mobile.

how did that go?

Took long time to do it right. Camera doesn't focus and minimal brightness turns screen off (which is nearly impossible to restore). Those are the only problems thought.

Is it possible to target Windows Phone 8 with UWP ?

No. UWP is windows phone 10 only. However on practice the core code had not changed massively. UWP also won't work on Windows 8 or 8.1. I have a moderately successful win 8 app which I'm updating to UWP. It's taking forever though. I keep rewriting and refactoring as i learn better ways to do things. I need a kick up the ass to get launched

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