Developing Apps for Windows Phone 8

Developing apps for Windows

Phone 8

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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

Windows 8WP 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 text- to-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

DemoHow 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

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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

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

• User can select any five apps to show quick status

• All you have to do is– Create an icon– Declare the app’s intent in the

application manifest file

Lock Screen

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

• Replaces Bing Maps

• Converges with Windows 8

Maps APIs

• Add a Map to your UI <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" > <maps:Map x:Name="MyMap"/> </Grid>

Map MyMap = new Map();

ContentPanel.Children.Add(MyMap);

Map Control

Mapping offline in native and apps

Route Queries do not require a network

Offline Maps

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

• 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

Built-In Map Tasks

Sensors – Proximity

• Near Field Communications (within 3-4 centimetres)

• Transfer of a message or byte stream from one device to another

• Using Bluetooth or WiFi

NFC

NFC OptionsApp to app App to device

Tag to App

NFC Demo

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

Sensors – Speech APIs

Text To Speech

Speech To Text

DemoSpeech-To-Text, Text-To-

Speech

Sensors - VoIP

• Incoming VoIP calls work like any other call

• Integrates with built-in phone features

• VoIP apps continue to run in the background

VoIP and Video Chat

Agenda Introduction

Windows Phone Fundamentals

Windows Phone Notifications

Windows Phone Sensors

Shared core with Windows 8

Reuse your skills to build WP8 apps

• Windows 8

Common Structure

Windows Phone 8• WP 8

Control Comparison

Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8Windows 8

Common APIsWP 8Windows 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-for-windows-phone-8-jump-start

https://dev.windowsphone.com