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Windows Phone 8 in Action Timothy Binkley-Jones, Massimo Perga, Michael Sync, and Adam Benoit MEAP Began: April 2013 Softbound print: Fall 2013 | 600 pages ISBN: 9781617291371 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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PART 1:
1. A new phone, a new operating system - FREE 2. Creating your first Windows Phone application - AVAILABLE PART 2: CORE WINDOWS PHONE 3. Fast application switching and resume - AVAILABLE 4. Scheduled Actions and Background agents - AVAILABLE 5. Launching tasks and choosers 6. Working with Contacts and Appointments 7. Storing data 8. Working with the camera 9. Integrating with the Pictures and Music + Videos Hubs 10. Using Sensors 11. Network communication with push notifications 12. Speech and Voice PART 3: XAML FORWINDOWS PHONE 13. ApplicationBar and Context Menus 14. Panorama and Pivot Controls 15. Manipulating and creating media with MediaElement 16. Using Maps 17. HTML Applications 18. Monetization Appendix A XAML Primer |
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DESCRIPTION
For mobile developers, Windows Phone 8 marks a major shift in Microsoft's mobile strategy. WP8 brings the innovative Windows 8 interface to the mobile phone and opens up an enormous app marketplace via the Windows Phone Store. And with major manufacturers like Nokia offering a wide range of competitive WP8 phones, customers finally have great hardware options.
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.
XAML, the Win8 markup language, makes it a snap to create great UI with a simple, declarative syntax. Behind the scenes, you have the full power of the C# language at your disposal. XAML for Windows Phone has been enriched with navigation services and a new execution model to better satisfy mobile requirements. After reading the book, you will be able to design and write XAML applications, embedding a browser, playing media files, running cool animations and dealing with the operating system execution model.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Building your first phone apps
- Selling on the Windows Phone Store
- Using modern phone features like voice recognition and media
- Mastering the Windows Phone 8 interface
This book assumes you know the basics of C#. Prior experience with XAML or earlier versions of Windows Phone is not needed.
About the Authors
Tim Binkley-Jones is an engineer with VMware. Tim has been working with XAML since the early releases of WPF and Silverlight. Massimo Perga is a software development engineer at Microsoft; he has worked for the Windows Phone division. Michael Sync is a Solution Architect building Silverlight and Windows Phone applications. Adam Benoit is a Quality Assurance Analyst and an independent Windows Phone developer with more than a dozen apps in the Windows Phone Store.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Windows Phone 8 in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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