(2016-10-18, 20:09)obveron Wrote: (2016-05-17, 05:52)jjd-uk Wrote: It's amazing in the age of Google people are still incapable of searching or doing some research, as it stands it would be impossible to port Kodi to be a Universal App without severly crippling functionality, the current Microsoft app ecosystem just doesn't give enough access to the system.
Interesting. What functionality specifically? VLC ported well to UWP and works well on Xbox One. Proof of concept that similar opensource video and audio decoders and rendering is portable from win32 to UWP WinRT. The Kodi interface will need some special WinRT treatment, but I'm curious what access to the system are you referring to?
I highlighted the crucial bits.
The Anniversary release has changed a lot of things for the better which has allowed us to appear in the store although we are still a Win32 desktop app. To become a true UWP app the Kodi would need to be ported to Windows Runtime I think, but not 100% sure on this since there's been a lot of change in the Microsoft app ecosystem.
Some of things that weren't possible with Windows Runtime apps:
Before you could only open videos held in the local Win 10 Videos folder, music from the local Music folder, and pictures from the local Pictures folder, it was not possible to open any media files from outside of these folders either locally or from the network.
It was not possible to run in true fullscreen mode as UWP apps weren't allowed exclusive access to the graphics hardware.
It was not possible to download modifications which would make add-on support impossible.
I'm unsure whether any of this is now possible with true UWP apps after the Anniversary update.