Windows Phone 8 is around the corner

What now?Catalin Gheorghiu

(The)Agenda

• The long story• The vs picture • The short story• The Demo(s)• The Application lifecycle (pictures)• The Demo(s)• The Q&A

Windows Phone 7

• 7.0.7004 initial version of the Windows Phone 7 OS

• 7.0.7008 improve update process for future update

• 7.0.7390 "NoDo" added CDMA support, Copy and Paste, fast application startup, and deeper Facebook Integration

Windows Phone 7

• 7.0.7392 revoke of fraudulent certificates

• 7.0.7403 intermediate update required

Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)

• Third-party application multi-tasking and fast application switching.

• Support for background tasks and services/agents.

• Expanded live tiles that can be updated without network connection and can have two sides which flip periodically.

Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)

• App Connect: third-party applications can integrate with Bing search, have multiple live tiles, and can have push notifications that link deep ("Deep Toast") into various parts of the application directly.

• Silverlight + XNA support in the same application screen.

Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)

• Optional 32 bit color support for Silverlight applications with hardware dithering.

• Silverlight 4 support.• Raw camera feed access for third-party

applications.• New sensor API combines compass,

gyroscope, and accelerometer.

Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1)

• Improved Listbox control with better scrolling performance.

• Improved WebBrowser control with IE9 rendering engine and system-wide cookies access.

• Clipboard API.

Windows Phone 7.1.1

• Support for 256 MB devices

Windows Phone 7.8

• New start screen

Windows Phone 8 *

• Native development in C++. Thanks to WinPRT, Windows Phone 8 is able to support a significant subset of the Windows 8 SDK libraries, and API sets.

• Mixed-mode app development. Hybrid app development is an attractive choice for developers who would like to port an existing C++ app, prefer coding in C++, or would like to use a Direct3D surface in their app.

* Based on http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2012/07/26/windows-phone-8-application-platform-detailed/

Windows Phone 8

• HTML app development options. Unfortunately for HTML developers, HTML-based phone apps are not a supported app model in Windows Phone 8 there is no direct JavaScript access to phone APIs because JavaScript projections are not available in WinPRT.

Windows Phone 8

• Feature upgrades – VOIP– Multiple resolutions

• Different screen resolutions are supported in Windows Phone 8 Developer Preview: WVGA, WXGA, and 720p.

– Marketplace enhancements • In-App Purchasing• The “wallet,”.

– Near-field proximity functionality

Windows Phone 8

– Removable SD cards• hot-swappable SD cards, read-only API access to user

content.– New camera capability and lens apps

• Camera parameter configuration, such as ISO speed and exposure.

• Real-time access to the phone’s video stream.• Lenses, which are special camera apps that can provide

enhanced camera functionality such as effects, filters, and computational photography.

• Multiframe capture for creating new types of camera experiences and imagery.

Windows Phone 8

– Line-of-business apps• The additions of NTLM authentication • always-on secure boot capabilities• 128-bit BitLocker®

– Speech capability• robust speech API for speech recognition and

synthesis.

– Bluetooth stack• RFCOMM protocol.

Windows Phone 8

– App-to-app communication APIs• apps can use an API call to launch other apps,

and associate themselves as the default handlers for certain file types.

– Networking enhancements• support for IPv6, • listener sockets• more granular information about connected

endpoints.

Windows Phone 8

– New data APIs• File I/O via a WinPRT API, enabling read-only

access to the user data in the SD card slot.• Native Win32 storage APIs.

– Search extensibility

Windows Phone 8

– Nokia maps• Cartography

– Media library API• API to add and delete media, including music,

pictures, and audio.

Windows Phone 8

– XAML upgrades• Toolkit-only controls such as LongListSelector,

and SDK-only controls such as Panorama and Pivot, are being moved in-ROM for better performance, appearance, and upgradability.

• Updated text rendering and font control• New launchers and choosers.• Emoji support.• Auto-scaling to handle multiple resolutions

WinRT vs WinPRT

New in WinPRT

• (SIP) / TextComposition New APIs that represent text as it is being composed

• SpeechNew APIs enable speech recognition, synthesis, and shell integration so that apps can be launched by using speech commands.

New in WinPRT

• Phone.Camera Additional APIs enable deeper camera configuration, access to live previews, and multiframe capture scenarios.

• Launchers/ChoosersAPI differs from WinRT in that choosers (known as “pickers” in Windows 8) can return data to a phone app that has been tombstoned .

New in WinPRT

• Bluetooth New APIs enable a native Bluetooth stack.

• In-App PurchasingNew APIs enable users to purchase downloadable content from within an app, such as “consumables” .

WP 7.0

• Copy paste• Tombstone model

WP 7.1

• IE 9• SQL Compact• Dormant • Background tasks• New sensor API• Toast notifications• Copy paste API

WP 7.1.1

• 256 MB devices• Reminders

WP 7.8

• New start screen

WP 8

• New start screen• Win NT Core/DirectX/NTFS/HAL• Bluetooth• Multicore• More sizes and resolutions• IE 10• SQL Lite• W8 app compatibility??! • Compile in the cloud• Native development• Private marketplace• SD

(Da) Demo

WP7 Application Lifecycle

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817008(v=vs.92).aspx

WP7 Application Lifecycle

Application Lifecycle Windows Phone 7

<Application.ApplicationLifetimeObjects>

<shell:PhoneApplicationService

Launching="Application_Launching" Closing="Application_Closing"

Activated="Application_Activated“ Deactivated="Application_Deactivated"/>

</Application.ApplicationLifetimeObjects>

Windows 8 Application Lifecycle

Windows Application Lifecycle

Application Lifecycle Windows 8

• OnLaunched: it is called every time the application is activated

• Suspending: This event may be subscribed to get notified about the suspension of the application.

• Resuming: The resuming event is raised only when the application is reactivated after being suspended.

• OnActivated: This event is raised when the application is not activated normally.

(Da) Demo

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