Are windows phone 7 apps compatible on windows phone 8 devices?

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user818700 picture user818700 · Dec 5, 2012 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

very straight forward question. My company has developed a windows phone 7 app and have been testing it on a windows phone 7 device. Can we safely assume that the same app will be backwards compatible and work seamlessly on a windows phone 8 device such as a Nokia Lumia 920?

Thanks in advance!

Answer

robertk picture robertk · Dec 5, 2012

Yes it will work. But it won't take advantage of all the WP8 features like a real WP8 app would. I'd suggest that you create a copy of the project and update it to WP8 for a better performence. Also replace any listboxes with LongListSelectors for example.

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