Windows Phone 8 in Action
- 496 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Windows Phone 8 in Action
About This Book
Summary Windows Phone 8 in Action is a comprehensive guide to developing apps for the WP8 platform. It covers the Windows Phone Runtime and.NET APIs used to work with a phone's sensors and hardware, including the accelerometer, camera, gyroscope, GPS, and microphone. You will learn to write code to dial the phone, write emails, send text messages, and recognize speech. The book also teaches you to build applications that use location and push notification. About this Book With 10 million (and climbing) active handsets, Windows Phone 8 has become a real alternative to Android and iOS. WP users are hungry for great apps, so it's time for you to start creating them! Windows Phone 8 in Action teaches you how to design, build, and sell WP8 apps. In it, you'll learn to use the WP Runtime and.NET APIs to control key features like the accelerometer, camera, GPS, and microphone. This example-driven book also shows you how to write applications that use location and push notification, enhanced navigation services, and WP8's deep multimedia capabilities.You'll need a working knowledge of C#. No experience with Windows Phone or XAML is required.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. What's Inside
- Build your first phone app
- Master the Windows Phone 8 interface
- How to sell on the Windows Phone Store
- Use features like voice recognition and media
About the Authors Tim Binkley-Jones has worked with XAML since the first releases of WPF and Silverlight. Adam Benoit is an independent developer with more than a dozen apps in the Windows Phone Store. Massimo Perga is an engineer at Microsoft. Michael Sync is a web and WP architect. Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCING WINDOWS PHONE
- A new phone, a new operating system
- Creating your first Windows Phone application
- PART 2 CORE WINDOWS PHONE
- Fast application switching and resume
- Scheduled actions
- Launching tasks and choosers
- Contacts and calendars
- Storing data
- Working with the camera
- Integrating with the Photos and Music + Videos Hubs
- Using sensors
- Network communication with push notifications
- Using the Speech API
- PART 3 XAML FOR WINDOWS PHONE
- ApplicationBar and context menus
- Panorama and pivot controls
- Building a media player
- Using Maps
- Building HTML applications
- Releasing and monetizing apps
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Introducing Windows Phone
- Part 2. Core Windows Phone
- Part 3. XAML for Windows Phone
- Appendix A. XAML, the Extensible Application Markup Language
- Appendix B. Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings