Discover the basics of app building with this easy-to-follow tutorial.
Create your Windows app with no coding required
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1. Have an idea
Showcase your content using one of our templates, or start with a blank canvas and make it entirely yours. -
2. Add content
Add images, videos, RSS feeds, HTML, connected services, and a lot more. You can bring in your content from a variety of sources in just a few clicks. -
3. Choose style
Make the app yours by choosing color palettes, hero images, background, icons, and even generate live tiles and splash screens from your content. -
4. Use it!
Windows App Studio builds your Windows app so you can share it,install it, edit the code, and even publish it to the Windows Store for the world to use.
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Ready. Set. Go. Done!
You’ve been thinking about building an app for a while now, you want share your content and interests with the world, but you just don’t have enough time and even if you did, where would you start?
The answer is Windows App Studio. A free, online app creation tool that allows you to quickly build Windows apps to publish, test, and share. Make changes, add content, and toggle between different device views to watch your app come alive.
And if you want to advanced programming features, Windows App Studio generates your source code ready for Visual Studio - a feature no other app-builder tool provides. There is no better day than today, so get started!
Connect with your fans
Musicians, bands, artists, and entrepreneurs are all using Windows App Studio to build their own apps to connect with their fans and find new ones too. Check out how DJ Nano, one of the top Club DJs in the world, built his own Windows app using App Studio.
Windows App Studio training videos
How to Publish
How to Publish a Windows App Studio app to the Windows Phone Store.
Windows App Studio Walk Through
This 27-minute video will walk you through step-by-step how to build your first app with Windows App Studio Beta.Resources
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Materials for teachers
Check out the 5-hour App Studio Curriculum at App Studio Education. Get your students building apps and extending them with code today!
Materials for developers
- Easily and Quickly Create Apps for Small Business Clients Using Windows App Studio
- Bring a Web App to Windows in Under 5 Minutes with Windows App Studio
- Saving Development Time with Windows App Studio's Windows 10 UWP NuGet Packages
- How to extend an App Studio app using Visual Studio
- How to Publish an App Studio app to the Windows Phone Store
- How to publish an App Studio app to the Windows Store
- Generating and Sideloading Windows 8.1 apps
Sample Apps
Windows App Studio News
Certificate-related Generation Issues Solved – Debrief and instructions on re-generating your apps
Hello, and we hope everyone is doing well in these late summer weeks. We apologize for the recent issues over the past couple of days when trying the generate or install Windows App Studio apps. The issue was that a certificate expired and the renewal notice was sent to the wrong email address, meaning that...
How to use the new REST API Data Source
Hi everyone! As you can probably tell, we’re pretty excited about the REST API data source. If you haven’t seen our post about the release on the Building Apps for Windows blog, you can check it out here. Since this new feature is a bit more complicated than the average data source, we thought it...
Instagram data source issues
We have learned of issues with the Instagram data source. Due to API Changes on their side, our integration no longer works for users who have previously not set up an API key. Users who already have an API key are largely not affected. We’re actively investigating and working on this. Since some of this...
Windows App Studio April 2016 Update – Installer companion app
As users of Windows App Studio , you know that it’s an easy-to-use tool for building Windows apps. You also know that the sideloading and installation process has been a bit complex by comparison, since it required running PowerShell scripts and deploying a certificate in a somewhat manual way. Since you told us that it...
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