Windows phone 8 apps

Windows Phone 8 Apps

Melania DanciuSolution Architect / mela.ro

Haufe-Lexware

Mela

Engineer - Politehnica Timisoara

Software developer

Solution Architect at Haufe-Lexware

Speaker

@melaniadanciu

http://mela.ro

Agenda

• Introduction in Windows Phone 8• Windows Phone 8 & 7.1• Tools• New Features• Be a developer

Introduction in Windows Phone 8

• Application Platform• Windows Phone Developer Tools • Application models• WP8 app development demo

New WP8 hardware• Multicore chipset

• New graphics processor

• Increased RAM: 1 GB or 512MB

• More Screen Resolutions

• Removable storage

• NFC

Shared Windows CoreWindows Phone 8 and Windows 8 share components at the Operation System level• SharedOS Components – kernel, graphics support, file system and multimediaDrivers• Not PossibleWindows 8 and Windows Phone 8 work to exactly the same APIs

Windows Phone 8 APIs

Managed

Managed & Native

Native

• .NET API for Windows Phone

• All the types and APIs for WP OS 7.1

• Classes and types from System and

Microsoft.Phone

• New classes added for WP8

• Microsoft.Phone.Walllet

• Microsoft.Tasks.SharedMediaTask

• …


Managed

Managed & Native

Native

• Windows Phone Runtime

• Subset of WinRT + some phone-specific

additions

• Is implemented in C++ and projected into

C#, VB.NET and C++

• HTML/JavaScript projects not available in

WP8

• Phone specific

• Lock Screen and lock Screen manager

• Speech recognition

• …


Managed

Managed & Native

Native

• WIN32 and COM

• Winsock for low level networking

• Camera API

• COM API: ReadFile, WriteFile, CreateFile,

…

Tools

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff402523(v=vs.105).aspx

Application Models• Many ways to build WP8 apps

• XAML UI with Managed Code

• Access .NET APIs and Windows Phone Runtime APIs

• XNA Games using Managed Code

• Access .NET APIs, not Windows Phone Runtime APIs

• Direct3D App

• Only Native code

• Direct3D and XAML

• Access everything

• XAML/Managed plus Native Code

• HTML5 App Development

Windows Phone OS 7.1 Apps in WP8

• Different apps• The 7.1 apps can run on WP8• The same APIs can have different behaviors in WP8• The conversion from 7.1 to 8 is possible but needs to be made with care

• The garbage collection on WP8 is complity different then on WP 7.1

New Features• Tiles Templates and Tiles Sizes• Lock Screen on Windows Phone 8• New Launchers• Maps• Location and Location Tracking• Speech• Wallet• UI Controls• 3 Screen Resolutions• Camera and Photos• Media

• Flip – front and back• Iconic – clean layout• Cycle – cycles through up to 9 images


• You can register your screen as a lock screen provider– Lock screen background screen provider– Provider status on the lock screen– Provided detailed status on the lock screen


• SMS, photo, contact, email…


• New maps control (Nokia)– Light and dark color modes– 4 cartographic maps models– Vector-based for fast rendering– Display landmark and pedestrian features


• New location API (W8)• Background location- tracking apps (Run

Trackers)


• Voice Commands(hold the Start button and speak)

• Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech APIs


• Credit and Debit Cards• NFC• Loyalty and membership cards• Access Saved Deals


• New Controls in WP8 SDK– Some of them from Toolkit– LongListSelector– Pivot – Panorma– …



• Background photo auto-upload (background agent)

• Advanced camera capture APIs• New Photos extendibility features (reach media

editor app)• Interact directly with the camera - Lenses


• Add and remove media files• Saved pictures have 2 thumbnail images• Background audio (PlayStateChangedEventArgs)

Other new elements• VoIP and Video Chat• Bluetooth and NFC• Support for IPV6• Read from SD Card• Custom Contact Store• File and Protocol Associations

Design• Pride in craftsmanship• More with less• Fast and fluid• Authentically digital• Win as one

http://developer.windowsphone.com/en-us/design/principles

Store

Other resources

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/windows-phone-8-apps-development-jumpstart

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/

http://mela.ro

What we’ve seen• A new platform• Develop a common application core for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8• Use the free tools available as a student• Learn from the videos and form communities• Have a look at the design principles• Use the new features to build incredible applications• Have in mind the patterns and the principles to build a solid application

????Q & A!!!!

Thank you!

Education

Windows phone 8 apps