Fluent Windows® 8.1 App Development

13. Displaying Your App

Because Win8 apps only ever have one primary app surface, managing the UI is in some ways easier than in a traditional Windows application—there aren’t any child windows or dialogs to keep track of—but it can also be more complex. A well-designed Win8 app needs to adapt to a wide range of form factors in a variety of views. And even if we don’t have multiple windows, we’ll probably have multiple pages to keep track of. Then there’s the UI you need to present when the user selects a charms like Settings or Search, and well, it can get interesting.

But like most things, if you just tackle one issue at a time, it’s a complex problem, but not a difficult one, and both Visual Studio and WinRT provide a lot of support for the ...