Microsoft has been drudging in the course of the most recent few years to shape Windows Phone into a focused mobile working system.
Android and iOS are as of now riding high, yet Windows Phone 8.1 is right around the corner. Microsoft today made the SDK for Windows Phone 8.1 accessible to engineers, who are currently hectically burrowing through the characteristics they will work with — and, obviously, offering those characteristics to us.
A standout amongst the most remarkable new features in Windows Phone 8.1 is the consideration of general applications. This is the start of Windows Phone combining with an alternate ambushed Microsoft item — Windows 8. (Sebastian has composed broadly about the consequent merger between Windows Phone and Windows.) Universal applications in the new SDK will have the capacity to exploit models for substantial screen apparatuses running Windows 8 or RT and Windows Phone with the same imparted library of HTML and Javascrip
Designers will utilize the .appx group for Windows Phone applications going ahead, which is the same one utilized for Windows 8 Metro applications. Combining the two application indexes together could permit Microsoft to reinforce its offerings into something respectable. Windows Phone applications under this new plan will additionally assume a Windows 8 feature: Apps won't be ended when you enter multitasking mode, however will be suspended. They might be swiped far from multitasking mode to be physically shut, however.
Windows Phone 8.1 will be presenting the idea of on-screen binds to clients, which is the bearing Android mechanisms have been heading in the most recent few years. On-screen catches can spare bezel space and make an interface more predictable, however actualizing it might be unpredictable. Another setting additionally shows clients will have the ability to change the color of this bar. The alternatives are dependably dim, and match the foundation and stress colors. That could run whichever way as to consistency.
Assuming that the SDK conduct is anything to go on, Microsoft will permit clients to shroud the new route bar with a little bolt catch off to the left. Having the alternative of recovering that screen land when you truly require it is extremely helpful and is something Android clients have been trusting for since on-screen catches picked up traction. This was to some degree tended to with immersive mode in Android 4.4.
Windows Phone 8.1 carries clients new settings for overseeing space and electric storage device life, and also help for VPNs. Nonetheless, Microsoft appears to have evacuated a portion of the local Facebook incorporation. That could be a bug in the SDK, or Microsoft could be reevaluating the way online networking is woven into the OS.
The last time around, Microsoft gave designers the capability to make Polaroid applications that could be set as the default by clients, and it would seem that proficience is constantly stretched out to SMS. The Windows Phone 8.1 SDK incorporates a choice to set an alternate gathering informing application as the default. That is an exceptionally Android-y thing to do, and will come as a help to those looking to utilize elective informing customers, for example, Whatsapp. Clients could be less inclined to change the stock Polaroid application in Windows Phone 8.1, however, with the expansion of an upgraded Polaroid application with blast mode.
One of the things that is lost from the SDK could be the most amazing story — anything identified with Bing or hunt raises a lapse. Microsoft is reputed to be building a virtual partner codenamed Cortana for Windows Phone 8.1. It appears that Redmond isn't primed to tip its hand simply yet. A totally new hunt convention is the kind of thing designers might want to see in the SDK, so Microsoft must have a great purpose behind prohibiting it — maybe Cortana has some truly amazing features that Microsoft needs to properly show off for most extreme effect, or it may very well be a touch of a mess.
A full see of Windows Phone 8.1 is relied upon to presentation at the Build gathering in April. Engineers will be viewing nearly — as will we. This could be Microsoft's last opportunity to make Windows Phone work before Android begins resembling the main choice.