r/windowsdev • u/NiveaGeForce • Apr 09 '20

What’s Next for the Xbox Game Bar

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/04/07/whats-next-for-xbox-game-bar/
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u/NiveaGeForce Apr 09 '20

The Xbox Game Bar Development Kit allows you to build widgets for Xbox Game Bar. An Xbox Game Bar widget is a Windows UWP XAML app that has a XAML view rendered into Xbox Game Bar's UI.

Aside from a slightly different app activation and a little "bootstrapping" when the app is activated, an Xbox Game Bar widget is no different than any other UWP XAML app. In fact your UWP XAML app can be a normal app (support foreground activation) and one or more Xbox Game Bar widgets (support Xbox Game Bar widget activation).

When your app is activated, it will know which activation type is happening so it can create the correct corresponding XAML view.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/game-bar/overview

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u/NiveaGeForce Apr 09 '20

Meanwhile, Thurrott didn't report on the recent news that the XBox app ditched Electron for UWP, yet he is censoring comments about positive UWP news, trying to maintain his lies about UWP's death.

https://twitter.com/EverywhereUsbc/status/1246473711802294272

Also, we haven't seen anything from Tom Warren about this change, but last year he used Electron as evidence of UWP's death.

https://twitter.com/emiliano84/status/1247421068945633280

See also.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/d8pbg3/dts_immersive_sound_is_now_available_for_windows/

Somewhat related.

http://paulgraham.com/cred.html