Windows Phone Garage - Application Jumpstart

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Glen GordonDeveloper Evangelisthttp://glengordon.name@glengordonglen.gordon@microsoft.com

Windows Phone Jumpstart

Agenda

Services

Design Considerations

Templates

Design considerations

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Theming Enables user to personalize their phone Dark and light themes, each with several

accent colors Built-in controls are automatically themed Applications can take advantage of theme

values

Tasks - Launchers and Choosers Launcher

Launches one of the built-in applications through which a user completes a task

No data is returned to calling application Example: PhoneCallTask

Chooser Launches one of the built-in applications through which

a user completes a task, and which returns some data to calling application

When caller completes, calling application is activated and supplied with the Chooser result

Example: PhotoChooserTask

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Launchers & ChoosersLaunchers EmailComposeTask MarketplaceDetailTask MarketplaceHubTask MarketplaceReviewTas

k MarketplaceSearchTas

k MediaPlayerLauncher PhoneCallTask SearchTask SMSComposeTask WebBrowserTask

Choosers CameraCaptureTask EmailAddressChooserT

ask PhoneNumberChooser

Task PhotoChooserTask SaveEmailAddressTask SavePhoneNumberTas

k

Retained in shell frame to support resuming paused

sessions

Discarded while the session is paused

UI and State Management: Concepts

Page UIDescribes the visual

appearance of a page

Page StateContains data that

describes an instance of a page,

analogous to browser cookie

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App Lifecycle - Tombstoning Happens when your application loses focus

Start Button Task started Incoming phone call

Application can be resumed User will be returned to most recent page

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App Lifecycle - Coding Save & restore page state

OnNavigatedTo and OnNavigatedFrom event

Save & restore application state Application_Launching,

Application_Activated, Application_Deactivated, Application_Closing

Found in app.xaml.cs

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Storage Isolated Storage

Settings and custom data Secure and sandboxed Logical folder structure via APIs No quota currently

Be responsible and inform/empower user Session State

PhoneApplicationService.Current.State Goes away on app closing

AppBar Up to 4 icons

48 x 48 pixels Black/white versions

Can set transparency level Slide up Menu can display more items Can declare in code or XAML Found under Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\

Windows Phone\v7.0\Icons

Hub Integration Music Photos Configured via XML in app manifest

Templates

Templates Built in

Databound, Panorama and Pivot Social viewer Windows Azure Toolkit

Services

Services RSS feeds (blogs, news, photos, video…) Popular APIs (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr,

Foursquare…) Bing

http://bing.com/developers Programmable Web

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

Windows Azure Marketplace https://datamarket.azure.com/

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Glen GordonDeveloper Evangelisthttp://glengordon.name@glengordonglen.gordon@microsoft.com

Windows Phone Jumpstart

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