What is App Connector...?

There doesn't seem to be an official definition from MS on the App Connector.

Here's my educated guess (and there are lots of them out there )

This seems to be a canonical UWP App that enables 3rd party Apps to access various pieces of a system.
Call it a bridge, call it an API
... but it's an App that provides services other Apps

A few things have happened with Windows 10.
The Store (MS wants more developers writing Windows Apps)
Visual Studio (Makes it easier to write Apps for different Hardware and port code to run on Windows)
Android app porting (see 1 & 2)
and there's this: Windows App Studio | Microsoft

I exorcise the UWP Apps desktop/laptop machines - at least until they become more robust and feature rich.

boyboyds said:

Thank you Slartybart,

I am just a regular PC user, not a developer.
Web, Skype, FB chat, some light gaming, some light photo/video editing.
Can you give a simple example of how you think this App Connector impacts my PC activity.....?
Do I even need it.....?

-BBDS

Right, you might not be a developer but at some point you might use a 3rd party UWP App.

The UWP Skype App needs access to your camera and your microphone ... while not a 3rd party App, Skype might not have access to those without App Connector - not sure, just an example.

The Google App (Ok Google) needs to access your microphone.

Instead of everyone writing their own access, getting permissions, etc, their Apps ask the App Connector to service their requests.

This approach is nothing new to Android users, when an Android App gets installed, it lists the permissions it requires. You either accept them or cancel the install. Most people accept and install the App. MS might be trying to get past that one install step by granting the permissions to the App Connector. The permissions are listed on the App page in the Store - nothing nefarious, just eliminating a step.

Keep in mind - this is all conjecture on my part - no hard evidence did I find