App Bars
Many apps, especially on a PC, leverage one or two app bars that appear from the top and/or bottom of a Page whenever the user performs an edge gesture (an appropriate swipe, right mouse button click, pressing Windows+Z, or pressing the context menu key). Users expect to find additional functionality via this gesture.
The bottom app bar has fairly rigid design guidelines. It should contain a specific style of buttons that trigger context-specific commands, although it can often have a group of buttons that act like RadioButtons for changing the view of the current page. When running on a PC, the buttons should be docked to each edge, favoring the right edge. (This is done not only to scale naturally to different resolutions, but to ...
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