Could you imagine your daily life without the Internet? It is used by many people, almost non-stop, for browsing websites, sending e-mails, calling, using maps, and navigation, as well as sharing diverse content using social media. Of course, people also use the Internet connection for downloading applications from mobile stores.
For these reasons, it is crucial to learn how to introduce Internet-based scenarios into your UWP applications that can be run on a smartphone, a tablet, or a desktop. Such topics are presented in the current chapter, together with examples.
First of all, you will get to know two ways of opening a website, namely in a default web browser in the system and using a control that allows presenting it directly within the application. In the next recipe, you will see how to open an e-mail client with a given configuration regarding recipients, subject, body, and even attachments. The following part of this chapter is related to calling, both by starting a traditional...