Universal App on Raspberry Pi

[hlyates]

I am concerned that the OS on Raspberry Pi for Windows is for power shell only. Does this mean that I cannot host a universal app (or Xamarin form) on Windows 10 IoT? I have several use cases where it would be nice to be able to host an application on the device directly.

For example, say I attached a touch screen and want an universal app to be displayed on that touch screen and service some sort of user request. If this kind of thing is possible, can someone please forward me to the proper documentation so I can learn more about how to develop for this please?

Thanks,
Heath

[fruitoftheloom]

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/home

https://dev.windows.com/en-US/iot

Windows IoT Core is a Microsoft product, to develop you will need Windows 10 Desktop Preview, Visual Studio 2015 and Powershell.....

[SebastianM]

Hi,

Yes, you are able to deploy a Universal App to the Pi. Works good, did that the whole last Weekend

[hlyates]

Yes, you are able to deploy a Universal App to the Pi. Works good, did that the whole last Weekend

May I press you further for details please? Do you have the code on github? Also, was this a GUI universal app? That is the important part for me. I want to attach a screen to my raspberry pi and have a GUI universal app run on it.

Again, and this is for everyone, I want to be sure I am clear. I am not interested in running GUI windows 10. I realize that Windows 10 IoT is powershell based. It will not be useful to me if the universal apps running on W10 IoT are also powershell only. What will make this a huge win for me is if I will be able to host, so to speak, GUI universal apps on it.

Please feel free to ask me questions to elaborate on what I mean. Also, I appreciate any samples you have so I can learn.

Thanks,
hlyates

PS - Do you think the universal xamarin form apps could run on raspberry pi too?

[fruitoftheloom]

Yes, you are able to deploy a Universal App to the Pi. Works good, did that the whole last Weekend

May I press you further for details please? Do you have the code on github? Also, was this a GUI universal app? That is the important part for me. I want to attach a screen to my raspberry pi and have a GUI universal app run on it.

Again, and this is for everyone, I want to be sure I am clear. I am not interested in running GUI windows 10. I realize that Windows 10 IoT is powershell based. It will not be useful to me if the universal apps running on W10 IoT are also powershell only. What will make this a huge win for me is if I will be able to host, so to speak, GUI universal apps on it.

Please feel free to ask me questions to elaborate on what I mean. Also, I appreciate any samples you have so I can learn.

Thanks,
hlyates

PS - Do you think the universal xamarin form apps could run on raspberry pi too?

The Poster has a post here: viewtopic.php?f=105&t=110142&p=756347#p756347

[jtanner_msft]

If what you want is to write a Universal App that runs locally on the Windows 10 IoT Core, without any powershell connection then you can do that today.
Here is a pointer to a Hello World sample that shows you a simple UAP app running on the Rpi2:
http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/s ... oWorld.htm

I hope that helps.

[SebastianM]

Hi hlyates,

sorry for the late answer.
As the postes before me said, there are a few samples that Show how to deploy a universal app to the Pi. Take a look here:
http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/StartCoding.htm

Just log in to Git Hub, download the Hello World sample mentioned before, load the solution on a Windows 10 Insider Preview Installation with Visual Studio 2015 Community RC, follow the instructions and deploy it to your Pi (running Windows 10 IoT core).

In short: Yes, GUI ist not that hard to do but at this stage of development limited to the Standard XAML controls and only a few graphical Features.

Did that answer your questions?
I think they did a very good Job in providing These samples. You can learn a lot if you dig into them.

Regards Sebastian

P.S. sorry, I'm not sure about xamarin apps on the Pi