Windows phone 7

Windows phone 7
AmalDev
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Little bit of History
Unveiled @ Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.
First thought as an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5
Released Developer Toolkit beta @ MIX’ 10
Released to manufacturing on Sep 2010
WP7 released in Europe in October and is coming to US in November
Hardware OEM’s include HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson…..

SO What is WP7 ?
An OS for mobile devices, mainly smartphones
Unlike Symbian & Android, its not free.
Built on top of .NET Compact Framework.
Designed specifically for finger driven interfaces.
Uses OLED(Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology for display
As of now, only C# is supported

How will it look ?

How it fares with others ?
Contd

How it fares with others ?

Hardware specifications
MicroprocessorCPU) - 1 GHz ARMv7 Cortex/Scorpion or better
Graphics(GPU) – DirectX 9 Compatible
RAM & Storage - 256 MB RAM for OS & Applications, 8 GB or more for flash storage
Hardware Buttoms – Back, Home & Search, Dedicaterd Camera, Volumer up & down and Power/Sleep
Camera – 5MP with flash
Capacitive multi-touch display with four or more contact points
Accelerometer
Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
Compass
Ligth Sensor, Proximity Sensor

What’s inside ?
Buttons
Input is touch, keyboard is optional
Wi-Fi
Camera, 5 MP
Accelerometer
Compass
Vibrator

How to develop apps for WP7 ?
Silverlight
XNA Framework
Tools Needed
Windows Phone 7 Developer Toolkit
Visual Studio 2010
Expression Blend
Windows Phone Emulator (For Testing)

Application platform

Lifecycle of a wp7 app

Developing apps in silverlight
What is Silverlight ?
Application Framework(multimedia, graphics, animation and interactivity all in a single runtime enviroment at client side)
UI – created using XAML and programmed using .NET
Programming logic can be written in any .NET languages
Event Driven

Visual tree of a silverlight wp7 app
PhoneApplicationFrame
PhoneApplicationPage
Grid named “LayoutRoot”
StackPanel named “TitlePanel”
TextBlock named “ApplicationTitle”
TextBlock named “PageTitle”
Grid named “ContentPanel”

Solution structre

App.XAML.CS

Storing data
ISOLATED STORAGE
Been used since Silverlight 2
Place where applications can store its data and settings
WP7 doesn’t allow to store file and data outside
isolated storage
IsolatedStorageSettings(Key/Value Pairs)
IsolatedStorageFile (Files like txt, xml etc)

QUESTIONS ?

Thank you
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Windows phone 7

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