How to get access to Microsoft.Phone.Control in a Portable Class Library

Question

I need to create a library for WP 8+ Apps that will recognize touches and gestures (and storing info about that). Is there a way to do this using Portable Class Library?

Answer 1

Yes. You can include Windows.Phone.Controls (in my case from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.1\Libraries) since it is supported on a PCL with the Windows Phone 8.1 subset.