# YouTubeClient: a UWP port of a decompiled WP7 client

> YouTubeClient adapts a decompiled Windows Phone 7 YouTube client XAP into a UWP application for Windows 10 Mobile and desktop. The port replaces WP7 navigation, settings storage, and dialogs with UWP equivalents while retaining the original page structure. The author reports an early draft with broken interface elements and nonworking search and top-video display.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/mediaexplorer74/YoutubeClient>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/mediaexplorer74/YoutubeClient/blob/62c3a2f6ec0c1479e0af7cf82ec640092c275427/ReadMe.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/youtubeclient-uwp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/youtubeclient-uwp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/youtubeclient-uwp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Build with MSBuild and the UWP SDK targeting 10.0.19041.0, with minimum version 10.0.10240.0.
- **Limits:** Search and top-video display are reported broken, and device testing remains unfinished.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/mediaexplorer74/YoutubeClient/blob/62c3a2f6ec0c1479e0af7cf82ec640092c275427/ReadMe.md>

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