Use app services and extensions
This section describes how to integrate app services into your UWP app to allow the sharing of data and functionality across apps.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Create and consume an app service | Learn how to write a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that can provide services to other UWP apps and how to consume those services. |
| Convert an app service to run in the same process as its host app | Convert app service code that ran in a separate background process into code that runs inside the same process as your app service provider. |
| Extend your app with app services, extensions, and packages | Determine which technology to use to extend and componentize your app and get a brief overview of each. |
| Create and host an app extension | Write and host Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app extensions to extend your app via packages that users can install from the Microsoft Store. |
| Create hosted apps | Create a packaged component (such as an app or a script file) that behaves like a standalone Windows 10 app but requires a separate host app (a UWP or packaged desktop app) in order to execute. |