Making your app ready for customers

In this section, we will update our app to be ready for our customers, including localization support to make the app easier to use for our customers. After adding localization support, we will update the icon and splash screen of our app so it is more easily recognizable for our users.

Localizing your app

If you are developing an app targeting customers, being able to provide translations for customers in their native tongue is very important, especially for apps that are targeted toward customers from different countries. In the previous section, we already added the x:Uid property and added entries to the Strings.resw file; however, there are also other ways to localize resources, which we will cover later. We will start localizing text with x:Uid.

Using x:Uid to localize your UI

Using x:Uid and resource files (.resw files) is the easiest way to localize your app, especially since adding new translations, for example, for a new language...