Developers Are Open-Sourcing Old Windows Phone Apps

Microsoft'due south attempt to conquer the smartphone marketplace with its Windows Telephone devices failed miserably, as we all know. As a final boom in the coffin, the tech giant announced earlier this year that it will exist stopping all support and updates for the Windows ten Mobile Platform starting December x. At present that the day is getting closer, developers who had previously worked for developing Windows Phone apps accept started a motion to open-source their one-time apps.

The movement got started as Pedro Lamas, a Windows Phone app developer took it to Twitter to share the news that he has open-sourced all his erstwhile Windows Phone apps. In the tweet, he invited the entire Windows Phone developer customs to open up-source their contributions. Have a await at the tweet below.

I've open up-sourced my "old" Windows Telephone apps and now I'grand invitating the whole #wpdev community to do the same! Some devs have already accepted and washed then, hopefully we can start a trend here! Please RT! 🙂 https://t.co/fEJTmIvh5z

— Pedro Lamas (@pedrolamas) October 30, 2019

Presently afterwards the tweet, other Windows Telephone developers joined the trend and open-sourced their Windows Telephone apps. It is worth noting that some apps at present being released past these developers were never released back then.

Also, since all these are deprecated projects, users should non be keeping their hopes high for every feature in the apps to be completely functional and working as intended. For the most part, the apps are supposed to work as it should exist.

My Windows Phone app #GameCardr is now Open Source on #GitHub https://t.co/GSfNxMi95M which allowed you to view Xbox LIVE Gamer Cards on Windows Phone and was downloaded 4,258 times! #wpdev pic.twitter.com/FfR4A9o1WJ

— Peter Bull (@RoguePlanetoid) October 30, 2019

The very few Windows Phone users out at that place who still love their Windows Phone are going to be totally delighted with this motion and this would come as a surprise as all their hopes to get Windows Phone apps resurrected went down when Microsoft appear that existing Windows 8.1 users volition be losing admission to Microsoft Shop.

Then, do any of our readers ain a Windows Phone and withal apply ane equally a chief telephone these days? We would love to hear from you in the comments.