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Developing Apps For Windows Phone 8

This document discusses developing apps for Windows Phone 8. It covers Windows Phone fundamentals, notifications, sensors, the shared core with Windows 8, and how to reuse skills to build WP8 apps. Some key points include how to use live tiles, notifications, maps, speech, and sensors. It demonstrates controls, tiles, notifications, maps, speech, and sharing code between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps. The presentation aims to help developers get started with building Windows Phone 8 apps.

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Developing Apps For Windows Phone 8

This document discusses developing apps for Windows Phone 8. It covers Windows Phone fundamentals, notifications, sensors, the shared core with Windows 8, and how to reuse skills to build WP8 apps. Some key points include how to use live tiles, notifications, maps, speech, and sensors. It demonstrates controls, tiles, notifications, maps, speech, and sharing code between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps. The presentation aims to help developers get started with building Windows Phone 8 apps.

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Developing apps for

Windows Phone 8

Testing Devices are sponsored by

Agenda
Introduction

Windows Phone Fundamentals


Windows Phone Notifications
Windows Phone Sensors
Shared core with Windows 8
Reuse your skills to build WP8 apps

Live Tile vs. Icon

Shared User Experience

WP 8

Windows 8

Shared Core

Window Phone Store: 120,000 Apps

8 Big Things
You Must Know About
Windows Phone 8

1. The Modern Hardware

2. Internet Explorer 10

4x faster JavaScript
performance

2x HTML5 feature support

3. Native Code for Games


Native game development platform
based on DirectX

Write the same game for


Windows 8 and WP8

4. Speech
Integrate speech-to-text and textto-speech with Speech APIs

15 supported languages
Voice commands to open apps from
start screen

5. Proximity APIs
NFC Tap-to-Share & Tap-to-Pay

Bluetooth APIs

6. Nokia Map Technology

Download map data for offline


use

Turn-by-turn directions

Background location tracking

7. Camera and Lenses


Lens apps integrate into the camera
Auto-upload pictures to web service

8. Personalizing Your Screen

Built-in VoIP and Video Chat


Incoming VoIP calls feel like any call
Integration with built in phone features
VoIP apps run in background
Available to all developers

Truly Global, Deeply Local

50 Languages

Apps available in 180+ countries

Getting Started

Pro or higher

http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk

Demo
How to create your first app for Windows Phone

Agenda
Introduction

Windows Phone Fundamentals


Windows Phone Notifications
Windows Phone Sensors
Shared core with Windows 8
Reuse your skills and code to build WP8 apps

Lifecycle

5 seconds

Demo app lifecycle

UI Controls and UI Toolkit

Panorama

Pivot

Telerik RadControls

Panorama, Pivot, RadControls Demo

What is Live Tile?


A shortcut to an app
Three tile sizes
Three tile types

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Tile Sizes

Tile Size

Flip and Cycle


Images

Iconic Images

Small

159 x 159 pixels

159 x 159 pixels

110 x 110 pixels

Medium

336 x 336 pixels

336 x 336 pixels

202 x 202 pixels

Wide

691 x 336 pixels

691 x 336 pixels

N/A

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Tile Templates
Flip flips from front to back

Iconic

Cycle cycles through up to


nine images

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Defining App Live Tile

Tiles Demo

Lock Screen
User can select any five apps to show
quick status
All you have to do is
Create an icon
Declare the apps intent in the
application manifest file

Agenda
Introduction

Windows Phone Fundamentals


Windows Phone Notifications
Windows Phone Sensors
Shared core with Windows 8
Reuse your skills to build WP8 apps

Windows Phone Notifications


Three Kinds of Push Notification:
Toast
Tile
Raw
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402545(v=VS.92).aspx

Push Notification Data Flow

Push Notification Demo

Agenda
Introduction

Windows Phone Fundamentals


Windows Phone Notifications
Windows Phone Sensors
Shared core with Windows 8
Reuse your skills to build WP8 apps

Windows Phone 8 Sensors

Windows Phone 8 Sensors - Map

Maps APIs
Replaces Bing Maps
Converges with Windows 8

Map Control

Add a Map to your UI


<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" >
<maps:Map x:Name="MyMap"/>
</Grid>

Map MyMap = new Map();

ContentPanel.Children.Add(MyMap);

Offline Maps
MapDownloaderTask mdt = new MapDownloaderTask();
mdt.Show();

Mapping offline in native and apps


Route Queries do not require a network

Built-In Map Tasks


MapTask: launch the map in 2 lines of code
MapsDownloaderTask: download map data
for offline in 2 lines of code
MapsDirectionTask: start turn-by-turn
directions in 4 lines of code

Sensors Proximity

NFC
Near Field Communications (within 3-4 centimetres)
Transfer of a message or byte stream from one device to another
Using Bluetooth or WiFi

NFC Options
App to app

App to device

Tag to App

NFC Demo

Sensors Speech APIs

Sensors Speech APIs


15 supported languages
Multiples voices per language

Sensors Speech APIs


Speech Synthesis (Text to Speech)
Speech Recognizer (Speech to Text)

Voice Commands

Text To Speech

Speech To Text

Demo
Speech-To-Text, Text-To-Speech

Sensors - VoIP

VoIP and Video Chat


Incoming VoIP calls work like any other call
Integrates with built-in phone features
VoIP apps continue to run in the background

Agenda
Introduction

Windows Phone Fundamentals


Windows Phone Notifications
Windows Phone Sensors
Shared core with Windows 8
Reuse your skills to build WP8 apps

Common Structure
Windows 8

WP 8
Windows Phone 8

Control Comparison
Windows Phone 8

Windows 8

Windows Phone 8

Common APIs
Windows 8

WP 8

Agenda
Introduction

Windows Phone Fundamentals


Windows Phone Notifications
Windows Phone Sensors
Shared core with Windows 8
Reuse your skills to build WP8 apps

Reuse your skills to build WP8 apps

HTML5 - IE10 Demo

References
https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/building-apps-forwindows-phone-8-jump-start
https://dev.windowsphone.com

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