Introducing Windows Phone 8 App Development

Agenda

Windows Phone History Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8 features Windows Phone communities

Consumer Store Coverage: Over 180 countries8.0

29 CountriesWindows Phone 7.0

180+ CountriesWindows Phone 8

63 CountriesWindows Phone 7.5

Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Share Many Components At The Operating System Level

Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8

Windows KernelWindows KernelWindows NT Kernel

OS Modules

Windows Phone 8 designing

Panorama

Pivot

Windows phone 8 features

3 Screen Resolutions

800 x 48015:9

1280 x 76815:9

720p1280 x 72016:9

Tile Templates and Tile Sizes

•Windows Phone 8 supports three Tile templates• Flip – flips from front to back (similar to the WP 7.1

Tile template)• Iconic – clean iconic layout designed to reflect

Windows Phone design principles• Cycle – cycles through up to nine images

You can register your app as a lock screen provider, which enables:

User can select your app to show detailed status on the lock screenCan select your app as one of the five apps to show quick status (icon and count)Can select your app as the lock screen background image provider

Lock Screen on Windows Phone 8

Better Sharing with NFC

Languages: 50 languages26 New

Windows Phone 7.5 24 Languages

Chinese SimplifiedChinese TraditionalCzechDanishDutchEnglish (US)FinnishFrenchGermanGreekHungarianIndonesian

Chinese SimplifiedChinese TraditionalCzechDanishDutchEnglish (US)FinnishFrenchGermanGreekHungarianIndonesian

ItalianJapaneseKoreanLatvianLithuanianMalayPolishPortuguese (Portugal)Portuguese (Brazil)RussianSpanish (Spain)Swedish

ItalianJapaneseKoreanLatvianLithuanianMalayPolishPortuguese (Portugal)Portuguese (Brazil)RussianSpanish (Spain)Swedish

Windows Phone 8 50 Languages

AlbanianArabicAzerbaijani (Latin)BelarusianBulgarianCatalanCroatianEnglish (UK)EstonianFilipinoHebrewHindiKazakh

AlbanianArabicAzerbaijani (Latin)BelarusianBulgarianCatalanCroatianEnglish (UK)EstonianFilipinoHebrewHindiKazakh

MacedonianNorwegian (Bokmål)PersianRomanianSerbian (Latin)SlovakSlovenianSpanish (Mexico)ThaiTurkishUkrainianUzbek (Latin)Vietnamese

MacedonianNorwegian (Bokmål)PersianRomanianSerbian (Latin)SlovakSlovenianSpanish (Mexico)ThaiTurkishUkrainianUzbek (Latin)Vietnamese

8.0

Company Hub

Communities

References

● http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001853/index.html

● http://channel9.msdn.com/WindowsPhone

● http://www.geekchamp.com/

● https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/design/principles

● http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735676232/