Using the UWP app simulator

The design behind the UWP architecture has been established so that your app can easily be deployed to any device that runs Windows 10. There may be some minor customizations needed depending on the capabilities that various platforms offer, but UWP will not limit you unnecessarily. As a reader of this book though, you are probably developing your UWP on a traditional computer that most likely has a keyboard and a mouse. While this is great for development (and usually, a keyboard is a needed component), this means that your workstation doesn't always match what is available to your app's users. Enter the Windows 10 simulator.

The Windows 10 simulator, available under VS2015, provides the ability to run your UWP app in your choice of Debug or Release builds, so that you can see how it runs and appears on a machine outside of your regular development machine configuration.

This recipe will show how to use the simulator to assist in developing your own...