[TIMOB-23759] Windows: Allow a user to define a target Windows version and Minimum Version in the tiapp.xml

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Improvement
Priority	None
Status	Closed
Resolution	Fixed
Resolution Date	2016-08-16T17:39:20.000+0000
Affected Version/s	Release 5.4.0
Fix Version/s	Release 6.1.0
Components	Windows
Labels	qe-5.4.0
Reporter	Ewan Harris
Assignee	Kota Iguchi
Created	2016-08-10T19:16:28.000+0000
Updated	2019-04-29T01:44:36.000+0000

Description

In TIMOB-23758 it was discovered that the minimum and target SDK versions for a project are set to the same version which is the highest version on the machine. This should be configurable by the user in the tiapp.xml in a similar way to iOS and Android, and similar to Android maintain as close to a native setting as possible. Below is a proposed example that matches the values found in a native project (.csproj or .vcxproj) file

<windows>
    <TargetPlatformVersion>10.0.10586.0</TargetPlatformVersion>
    <TargetPlatformMinVersion>10.0.10240.0</TargetPlatformMinVersion>
</windows>

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <manifest>
        <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="21"/>
    </manifest>
</android>

<ios>
    <min-ios-ver>4.3</min-ios-ver>
</ios>

Comments

Gary Mathews 2016-08-12

master: https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile_windows/pull/819
Kota Iguchi 2016-08-15

https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile_windows/pull/818

Samir Mohammed 2017-02-01

Verified fixed, was able to define a target version and a minimum target version. *Steps taken to verify:* 1. Add the following in to the tiapp.xml of an application

    <windows>
           <TargetPlatformVersion>10.0.14393.0</TargetPlatformVersion>
           <TargetPlatformMinVersion>10.0.10240.0</TargetPlatformMinVersion>
       </windows>

2. Went to the project directory and used the following commands:

   appc run -p windows -T wp-device -S 10.0.10586.0 --build-only

   appc run -p windows -T wp-device -S 10.0.10586.0

With these commands I was able to build the project and also run it successfully. *Environment*

   Phone : Lumia 640 LTE (RM-1073)
   Operating System:
   Name                        = Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
   Version                     = 10.0.14393
   Architecture                = 32bit
   CPUs                      = 4
   Memory                      = 17034395648
    
   Node.js:
   Node.js Version             = 4.6.0 
   npm Version                 = 2.15.9
    
   Titanium SDK:
   SDK Version                 =  6.1.0.v20170131075226

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