1. Windows Phone
Development
Niko Vrdoljak, Teched

2. Windows Phone History
2010
Feb Windows Phone 7.0 initially released
Apr Development tools (SDK) announced
Oct Launched
2011
Feb No-Do update and partnership with Nokia announced
Apr Mango (Windows Phone 7.5) update detailed
Sep Mango update published
2012
Jun Windows Phone 8 announcement
Oct Windows Phone 8 launch

3. Metro UI
• Design language
• Swiss graphic design
• Focus on content, not on
decoration or chrome
• Emphasys on typography
• Data becomes visual
elements

5. Two Flavors of Applications
• Modern XAML/event-driven • High performance game
application UI framework framework
• Rapid creation of visually • Rapid creation of multi-
stunning apps screen
• Metro-themed UI controls 2D and 3D games
• HTML/JavaScript • Rich content pipeline
• 1,000,000 developers • Mature, robust, widely
spanning Windows, Windows adopted technology
Phone and web spanning Xbox
360, Windows, and Zune

6. Windows Phone Development
Tools
Tools
Phone Emulator Windows Phone
Samples Documentation device
Guides Community
Packaging and Verification Tools
myapp.xap
Windows Phone
Emulator

7. Application Model
running
Load State! Save State!
activated deactivated
tombstoned - Phone removed from
memory
- Some state saved to storage

8. Panorama
• Part of the native Windows Phone look and feel
• Panorama is a long horizontal canvas
• PanoramaItem serves as a container that hosts other
content and controls

9. Panorama

10. Pivot
• Provides a quick way to manage views or pages
• Pivot is a container of pivot items
• PivotItem contain individual page content such as
controls, grids, or links

11. Application Bar and System Tray
• System Tray
• No integration, but does affect
Layout
• Show:Hide using
SystemTray.IsVisible
• Application Bar
• Up to 4 Buttons
• Menu Items (Recommended 6)
• Toggle Visibility
• <mypage>.ApplicationBar.IsVisible
DEMO

12. Integration with OS
• Hub integration
• Enhance the built in hubs with your application
• Launchers let you fire and forget to an OS app
• SMS, email, web browser, maps, dialer, search, etc.
• Choosers are like an open file dialog
• Launches an OS experience for letting the user
choose data for the app
• Picture, contact, camera, etc.

13. Launchers & Choosers
LAUNCHERS
• BingMapsDirectionsTask CHOOSERS
• BingMapsTask
• PhoneNumberChooserTask
• ShareLinkTask
• ShareStatusTask
• PhotoChooserTask
• CameraCaptureTask • EmailAddressChooserTask
• MarketplaceLauncher • AddressChooserTask
• MediaPlayerLauncher
• GameInviteChooserTask
• PhoneCallTask
• SaveEmailAddressTask
• SaveContactChooserTask
• SavePhoneNumberTask • SaveRingtoneChooserTask
• SearchTask
• EmailComposeTask
• SMSComposeTask
• WebBrowserTask

14. Notifications
• Tile notifications
• Update tile count, title and
background image
• Toast notifications
• Display a on-top-like message
• Raw notifications
• Can be used in application logic
• Background Agents & Push
Notifications

15. Sensors
• GPS
• Accelerator
• Compass +Y
• Gyroscope
-Z
-X
+X
+Z -Y

16. XNA
• XNA Game Studio 4.0
• XNA + Silverlight
• 2D & 3D
• Xbox LIVE
• Game loop:

17. Marketplace
• 90.000 applications
• 54 countries
• accesible via web, device or Zune
• try-before-you-buy scheme
• $99 to became AppHub member
• Global Partner program for unsupported countries
www.windowsphone.com

18. Cross platform
• Apache Cordova (ex. Phone Gap)
• Open source mobile development framework
• HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3
• Xamarin’s Mono
• Run Microsoft .NET applications cross-platform
• MonoTouch for iPhone
• Mono for Android
• MonoGame - implementation of XNA

19. Windows Phone 8
• WP7 apps will work on WP8 (confirmed by MS)
• Announcement: end of June 2012
• Extended hardware specifications
• Windows Runtime
• XAML/C#, HTML5/JS, C++/DirectX
• Upgrade to WP7 devices ???

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21. AppHub
• http://create.msdn.com
• Community
• Documentation
• Resources
• Downloads
• Samples

22. Q&A