A Day in the Life of a Metro-veloper

A day in the life of a metro-veloper
Ducas Francis
Senior Consultant - Readify
http://duc.as
@ducas

Agenda
What is Metro?
How do I get started on Windows Phone 7?
What cool things does it’s API let me do?
And why would I come to a Silverlight user group to hear about this…?

Application Platform
Familiar and inexpensive toolset
Cohesive and well designed managed API set
Isolated sandbox for each app
Runtime services to access cloud services
Marketplace for app distribution

Architecture
Runtime-On Screen
Tools
Cloud Services
Portal Services

Silverlight on Windows Phone
What’s not?
Browser host
Dynamic language runtime (DLR)
Expression trees
HTML DOM bridge
JavaScript programmability
System.Reflection.Emit
Silverlight plug-in object reference
Sockets
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls
WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET)
Duplex communication over HTTP
JSON serialization
RSS and Atom feeds (syndication)
What’s supported?
Input
UI rendering
Media
Deep Zoom
Common language runtime (CLR)
Controls
Layout
Data binding
Isolated storage
LINQ
Networking (HttpWebRequest, WebClient)
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
XAML
XAP packaging
XML serialization

Metro
Echos airport and metro system signage
Clearly direct end users to content
Creates a more consistent and fluid UX
The guidance docco is over 100 pages long, so here’s what’s important…

3 red threads
Personal – your day, your way
Relevant – your people, your location
Connected – your stuff, your peace of mind

5 principles
Clean, light, open and fast
Content, not chrome
Integrated hardware and software
World-class motivation
Soulful and alive

Status Bar and App Bar
Status Bar – displays system-level status info
App Bar – provides a place to promote the most common tasks

Screen Orientation
SupportedOrientations =
Portrait
Landscape
PortraitOrLandscape

Push notifications
Push Notification Service provides a cloud service with dedicated, resilient, and persistent channel for pushing notifications to devices
Toast notifications are system-wide notifications that do not disrupt the user workflow or require intervention to resolve

Tile notifications
Communicate via counter, background and title

Raw notifications
In-app notifications generated by the application or sent from a web service.

Frame and Page Construction
PhoneApplicationFrame
top level container
PhoneApplicationPage
holds discrete sections of content in your application

Page title
Clearly displays information for page contents

Themes
Built-in theme resources preserve look and feel of the native device UI

Touch input

Supported touch gestures

On-screen keyboard
Slides up from bottom of the screen when an editable control becomes active
Slides down off bottom of the screen when a user taps outside of the edit control, scrolls a list, or presses the Back Button
Automatically closes if a phone has a Hardware Keyboard
Developers can control the input types using InputScope

Sensors
Accelerometer
A-GPS
Proximity sensor
Camera
Compass
Light Sensor
+
FM Radio

Panorama application
Dynamic visual experiences serving as a starting point for more detailed experiences

Pivot control
Manages views within an app
Used for filtering large datasets, viewing multiple datasets, or switching application views

Capitalisation
ToLower
Page titles
List titles
List group titles
Button or command text
List items
Example text
Links controls in the middle of a sentence
ToSentence
Check box & radio button labels
Progress indicator
Status, notification and explanatory text
Toggle switch
ToUpper
Application title
Date & time

Resources
http://developer.windowsphone.com
msdn
downloads
pay to sell your app
guidelines
social networks

Resources
http://developer.windowsphone.com/windows-phone-7

Resources
Hello World
Screen Orientation
Touch
Image Manipulation
Sensors & Services
Application Architecture
Silverlight
XNA
http://charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html

Resources
http://www.learningwindowsphone.com/

Code
WP7 Panorama + Pivot - http://phone.codeplex.com
Multitouch- http://multitouch.codeplex.com
MVVM framework - http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com
Flick gestures - http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/flickgesturetrigger
Push Notifications – http://blog.duc.as/2010/08/13/push-notifications-in-windows-phone-7

Thank you
http://duc.as
@ducas

A Day in the Life of a Metro-veloper

by Ducas Francis on Aug 24, 2010

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