Sample App Design Improvements

[michael-hawker]

Right now the Sample App is all structure, but we should make some functional improvements to its functionality and design.

Essentials

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1. Add theme selection
2. FlowDirection toggle
3. Light/Dark Theme toggle
4. Experimental property in frontmatter #87
   bug 🐛 +1
5. [Gallery] Move searchbox and menu button to titlebar #85
   bug 🐛 +1
   

All components app:

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1. Clean-up of overall documentation display, like side-panel for sample navigation and extra documentation metadata/github links, etc... (like the XAML Controls Gallery) see comment here
2. Generate search index for Sample App #82
   build 🔥 enhancement nuget 📦 sample app 🖼 source generator ⚙️ +5
3. Create a home/landing page
4. Add more about information

Single component app:

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1. Accessibility (see [Proposal] Add automated accessibility testing Labs-Windows#86 as well)
2. Headings for embedded Samples/Clean-up of Sample Display/Layout see comment here
3. Run tests as part of CI Labs-Windows#67
   +0

[mrlacey]

Is it appropriate to also add an option to change the language/culture? Doing so will make it easier to spot any localization issues.

[michael-hawker]

@mrlacey yeah, that's a good idea. Is that something we can dynamically change at runtime easily and get the XAML resources to update from?

[mrlacey]

@mrlacey yeah, that's a good idea. Is that something we can dynamically change at runtime easily and get the XAML resources to update from?

I'll investigate how well supported this is across platforms - I've heard differing things.

[Arlodotexe]

Is it appropriate to also add an option to change the language/culture? Doing so will make it easier to spot any localization issues.

Great idea. I'll add that we should have a switch for toggling RTL mode and light/dark mode per sample.

[michael-hawker]

Great idea. I'll add that we should have a switch for toggling RTL mode and light/dark mode per sample.

On the to do list above already. 😉

[michael-hawker]

Split out the specific Markdown rendering technical bit to CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows#151.