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3. INTRODUCING WINDOWS PHONE 8 APP
DEVELOPMENT | PART 2
OVERVIEW OF NEW FEATURES FOR DEVELOPERS IN
WINDOWS PHONE 8.0
4. TILE TEMPLATES AND TILE SIZES
Windows Phone 8 supports three Tile
templates
Flip – flips from front to back (similar to the
WP 7.1 Tile template)
Iconic – clean iconic layout designed to reflect
Windows Phone design principles
Cycle – cycles through up to nine images
5. TILE SIZES AND RESOLUTIONS
Windows Phone 8 Developer Preview supports three Tile sizes: small, medium, and
wide.
Your customer chooses which Tile size they will pin to the Start screen, so it's important
to supply an image for each size. The exact image dimensions differ according to which
Tile template your app supports.
6. LOCK SCREEN ON WINDOWS PHONE 8
You can register your app as a lock
screen provider, which enables:
User can select your app to show detailed
status on the lock screen
Can select your app as one of the five
apps to show quick status (icon and
count)
Can select your app as the lock screen
background image provider
7. NEW LAUNCHERS
Launchers are APIs that help a user perform common tasks… Invoke part
of the phones’ built-in capabilities to perform tasks such as
Take a photo, Add a contact, Send an email or SMS message
Etc…
New Launchers in Windows Phone 8:
SaveAppointmentTask
ShareMediaTask
MapDownloaderTask
MapUpdaterTask
MapsTask
MapsDirectionsTask
8. MAPS
Windows Phone 8 has new Maps controls
Bing Maps control from Windows Phone OS 7.1 is still supported, but
deprecated
The new Maps controls use technology supplied by Nokia
New features:
Vector-based for faster rendering
Four cartographic map modes
Light and dark color modes
Display landmark and pedestrian features
9. LOCATION AND LOCATION TRACKING
New Location API in the Windows Phone Runtime API set
Similar to Windows 8 Location API
Windows Phone OS 7.1 .NET Location API still supported
Background location-tracking apps
Run continuously in the background when the user navigates away
from the app
Enables scenarios such as Run Trackers, turn-by- turn navigation
10. SPEECH
Windows Phone 8 allows you to enable users to
robustly interact with your app using their voice
Two types of voice interaction are new:
Voice Commands - Allows users to deep-link into your app by
holding down the Start button and speaking a prefix you
specify for your app, followed by a command that you define.
Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech APIs - While in the
context of your app, allow users to provide input using their
voice, and readout text to users via text-to-speech
12. UI CONTROLS
New Controls in Windows Phone 8 SDK
LongListSelector
Grouped lists – with headers
Jump List
Flat lists
Formerly in the Silverlight Toolkit
Pivot and Panorama now in
ROM
WebBrowser control now based
on Internet Explorer 10
14. CAMERA AND PHOTOS
Lenses
Type of extensibility available to apps that provide unique camera functionality via the camera APIs
As a lens, your app provides the user with a viewfinder experience and interacts directly with the
camera
New Picture.GetPreviewImage() method to return thumbnail images
New Photos extensibility features
In addition to extending the Photos Hub, the photo app picker, and the share picker, your app can now
integrate with the photo edit picker or register as a rich media editor
Background Photo Auto-upload
Automatically upload photos to a photo storage service using a resource-intensive background agent
Advanced camera capture APIs for apps that require fine control of the camera
Use the PhotoCaptureDevice class to control photo properties such as ISO, white balance, and
exposure. You can even programmatically adjust the focus position
The AudioVideoCaptureDevice class offers a similar level of control for video and audio recording
15. MEDIA
Music media library
Add and remove music files from the user’s music collection with the SaveSong and
Delete methods of the MediaLibrary class
Pictures media library New Photos extensibility features
In Windows Phone 8, for each picture saved on the phone, the following two thumbnail
images are automatically created and can be retrieved by your apps:
A small thumbnail image. You can retrieve this thumbnail with the GetThumbnail
method of the Picture class
A preview image that has the same dimensions as the phone's screen. You can retrieve
this preview image with the new GetPreviewImage extension method of the Picture
class
Background Audio
New PlayStateChangedEventArgs returns data when state of BackgroundAudioPlayer
changes
16. VOIP AND VIDEO CHAT
Incoming VoIP calls work like
any other call
Integrates with built-in phone
features
VoIP apps continue to run in
the background
Available to all developers
17. BLUETOOTH AND NFC
Create apps that communicate with other phones using Bluetooth
technology
Bluetooth API enables the following scenarios for Windows Phone 8:
App-to-app communication
App-to-device communication
Proximity API enables:
App-to-app connection using Bluetooth technology
Establish a Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi Direct connection between your app and an
instance of your app on a proximate device
Send data between devices using NFC.
Use a phone to interact with NFC tags
19. STORAGE – READ FROM SD CARD
Apps can use the
Microsoft.Phone.Storage API to read
files from an SD card
User can also use SD card to extend
device storage for their personal files
and media
Store photos, music, videos
Can install apps from a MicroSD store
20. CUSTOM CONTACT STORE
Create a set of contacts owned exclusively by the app, though visible
through the phones built-in Contacts app
APIs are provided to create, update, delete, and query the app’s
contacts
Sync the app’s contact list with a remote list maintained by the app’s
cloud service
21. FILE AND PROTOCOL ASSOCIATIONS
Enables App to App Communication
App can register a File Association
Automatically launch your app when a file of the registered type
is received as an email attachment or opened in the browser, or
through Sharepoint
One app can launch another by sending it a file of the registered
type
App can register a protocol
Allows your app to automatically launch when another app ‘opens’
a special URI
Protocol is the first part of a URI, e.g.
myprotocol:/ShowProducts?CategoryID=aea6ae1f
App launches another and passes it data in the remainder of the
launch URI
25. LOCALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION
RTL and BiDirectional Support
Windows Phone 8 supports languages such as Arabic,
Hebrew and Persian that are read from right to left
FrameworkElement.FlowDirection property allows right-to-left
layout in StackPanels and other content controls
FlowDirection property also enables RTL text display in text
controls
Sometimes RTL languages contain content that flows from
left to right. For example, a network share name such as
server1folderfile.ext, should always be displayed LTR
In such cases, you can use the Run element to contain the LTR
text, and then set the FlowDirection property on the Run element
to “LeftToRight”
30. SECOND LEVEL ADDRESS TRANSLATION
(SLAT)
SLAT is required to run the WP8 emulator.
PCs that support SLAT are Intel-based processors that start with i (e.g.,
i3, i5, i7, i9) or any CPUs based on the Nehalem, Westmere, or
Sandybridge micro-architectures.
To determine if your machine supports SLAT, perform the following
steps:
Download SysInternals/TechNet CoreInfo at http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/sysinternals/cc835722
Run "coreinfo -v"
If you have "*" next to "EPT" you should be good.
If you have a "-" next to EPT then you should start looking for a new computer :)
32. DEPLOYING TO THE PHONE
Visual Studio lets you select the
target device for your program when
you run it
The development environment is
exactly the same for both platforms
You can debug in exactly the same
way for each too
33. APPLICATIONS ON THE PHONE
Once you have deployed an application the phone device it is
stored on the device for later use
You are limited to ten of your own applications on the phone at any
one time
You can also send compiled versions of your application to other
registered developers for them to use on their developer devices
34. THE WINDOWS PHONE EMULATOR
RTL and BiDirectional Support
The Windows Phone emulator runs as a Hyper-V virtual
machine on your Windows PC
It contains the same software as a “real” phone, but built for
the Windows PC platform
The emulator is supplied with the Windows Phone SDK
You can perform location and orientation simulation using
the emulator
You can use the Simulation Dashboard in Visual Studio to
manage the emulator environment
Lock and unlock the phone
Control the quality and availability of the network connection
35. EMULATOR PERFORMANCE
The emulator is not a reliable way of predicting how a program
will perform on a real device
The processor in a Windows PC may be more powerful than the one in the
phone
The emulator is for functional testing only
If you have any concerns about performance you should ensure you
run your program on a real device
There are profiling tools that you can use to inspect the activity of
your programs, both in the device and in the emulator
36. EMULATOR INTERFACE
You can use the PC mouse to control the emulator
If you have a multi-touch display you can use
multiple touchpoints to pinch and zoom on the
display
The emulator will emulate the touch keyboard so
you can type by clicking on the keys
Use the PgUp/PgDn keys to switch between the
emulator software keyboard and using your PC
keyboard for text input
37. EMULATOR ORIENTATION
Use the command bar at the right side
of the emulator to access an extra set
of tools
These allow you to rotate the emulator
into different orientations
Use this to test how your software
responds to orientation changes
38. CAMERA EMULATION
The camera emulator just “takes” a simple
photograph and returns it
You can use this to show your applications are
invoking the camera task and receiving the result
correctly
39. LOCATION EMULATION
Windows Phone applications can use the emulator
to generate location data for them
To do this we open the Additional Tools pane on
the emulator
40. ADDITIONAL TOOLS
This is the Location tab in the
Additional Tools
You can click on any location to
“move” the emulator to that
position
You can also place pushpins to
describe a route, and then
“replay” that route
42. LOCK THE SCREEN IN THE EMULATOR
Showing the Lock Screen in the emulator is a good
way of testing what happens when your app is
deactivated
Using the Keyboard:
Press F12 on your computer keyboard twice
Using the Simulation Dashboard:
On the Visual Studio Tools menu, open the Simulation
Dashboard
44. CAPTURING SCREENSHOTS
It is very useful to be able to take screenshots of the emulator
These can be used in documentation and also to promote the application in
the Marketplace
The emulator Additional Tools pane provides a Screenshot tab
45. CAPTURING SCREENSHOTS ON A REAL
DEVICE
New in Windows Phone 8!
Press the power and Windows buttons
simultaneously
Easy to share screenshots on social networks