windows 8 and phone app development

Windows 8 and Phone App Development

Paul Gower

paul.gower@lunamark.com

@paulmgower

http://blog.paulgower.me

http://lunamark.com

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Share As Much As Possible

Real-world stocks - example

Design

What is common?

Windows Phone

Windows

Windows

What is different?

Windows Phone

GridView Panorama

GridView

Demo

AppBar

On screen

Develop

PCL –Visual Studio Support

Cross-Platform Development with the Portable Class Library on MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391(v=vs.110).aspx

Portable Class Library

Demo

What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Key ScenariosWindows Azure Mobile Services are ideal for:

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Linked files

Linked files

Hold Alt and drag a folder to link multiple files at once!

Windows Phone Windows

Linked Files

Demo

#if NETFX_CORE

Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, myAction);

#endif

#if WINDOWS_PHONE

Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(myAction);

#endif

Windows

Windows phone

Compiler Directives

Demo

Comparison

Sharing an assembly (PCL)

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Code remains clean and single purpose

Build, test, compile once

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Limited API access

Can’t reference non-PCL assemblies

Won’t work with Express SKUs (until VS2013)

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Architecture

Portable Class Library

CoreViewModels

Services

Models

Windows

App Startup / Lifecycle

Views

Controls

Converters

ViewModels

Windows Phone

App Startup / Lifecycle

Views

Controls

Converters

ViewModels

Demo

Summary –What to share?

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QUESTIONS?

Paul Gower

paul.gower@lunamark.com

@paulmgower

http://blog.paulgower.me

http://lunamark.com

XPlatformCloudKit

Demo

• Stuart Lodge (creator of MvvmCross) – http://slodge.blogspot.com

• MvvmCross GitHub - http://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross

• Paul DeCarlo (creator of XPlatformCloudKit) – http://pjdecarlo.com

• XPlatformCloudKit GitHub – http://github.com/winappkits/XPlatformCloudKit

• Azure Mobile Services – http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/develop/mobile

• Portable Class Library – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391(v=vs.110).aspx

• Xamarin Studio – http://www.xamarin.com

Resources