Wire-desktop: Consider publishing an UWP app (Universal Windows Package) via Windows Bridge (Centennial Project), optionally uploading it officially on the Windows Store

[notNSANE]

This is the documentation you need: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/desktop

It's completely possible to convert Win32 apps to UWP apps via Centennial Project: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51691

Yes, you can convert Electron apps to UWP, Tweeten (in Windows Store) is one of those apps.

Advantages of Universal Windows Packages:

• MSDN article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/whats-a-uwp
• Publishing the app to Windows 10, Windows Phone, Xbox, HoloLens
• No registry! They are self contained
• Same design for all platforms
• All UWP apps are run in limited mode (you can't run them with Adminstrator permissions) so they are as secure as they can be

If you don't want to use Windows Store for X reason, you can provide an UWP app and users can use them. That's what Adobe is doing with Adobe XD. You can research a bit for more success cases, here's an article about Adobe: https://mspoweruser.com/adobe-xd-now-available-windows-10-users-beta/

[lipis]

That's interesting! Thank you for the links.. Do you have any idea how does it handle the autoupdates?

[notNSANE]

For the Windows Store you only send an update request via the developer site, here's the full documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/app-submissions
Mind that it takes a few days at best, not just 1 day, certification is slow.
The user sees the update in Windows Store, then it's updated.

If you don't want to use the Windows Store, I'm not sure how Electron handles the autoupdates. I think it's completely doable but I haven't used any apps outside the store yet.

[lipis]

It's similar to App Store (I just hope it's faster). At the moment we are handling the autoupdates on our own.. Thanks again for the info.. It's not in our roadmap but it was asked many times.. Let's see what we can do..

[gregor]

Thanks again for your request. While we continue to evaluate the feature requests we currently have no immediate plans to release Wire for Windows via additional channels. Due to the nature of this being a feature request we will continue to track this internally and close this issue.