Windows 10 / UWP sample weather app written in C# for phones, tablets, desktops, IoT devices, Xbox & HoloLens. This project is used as a demo for various presentations on building UWP apps for Windows 10, as well as integrating speech and Azure in apps.
Note that this project was updated to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (build 16299 minimum) with the Weather class now in a .NET Standard 2.0 library. As such it can only be opened in Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 or higher.
The app supports the following features:
- Pull weather forecast data from OpenWeatherMap.org (packaged in a reusable .NET Standard 2.0 library)
- Simple adaptive UI across various Windows 10 form factors & screens
- Text-to-speech support to speak the forecast out loud using the default system voice
- Save cities being queried in an Azure Mobile Service table
- Launch the app via Voice Commands from the Cortana canvas (VCD)
- Deep-linking from external apps to trigger weather searches & speech synthesis
This is my tentative to do list in terms of where I want to take this sample:
- Migrate the Azure backend to App Services
- Add support for ambient temperature readings from external sensors on Windows 10 IoT Core
- Add a weather map with Bing Maps
- Add a hamburger menu for additional commands
- Migrate the app architecture to MVVM
- Extend the adaptive UI design
- Adding app analytics via HockeyApp
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