Summary

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.

About this Book

With 10 million (and climbing) active handsets, Windows Phone 8 has become a real alternative to Android and iOS. WP users are hungry for great apps, so it's time for you to start creating them!

Windows Phone 8 in Action teaches you how to design, build, and sell WP8 apps. In it, you'll learn to use the WP Runtime and .NET APIs to control key features like the accelerometer, camera, GPS, and microphone. This example-driven book also shows you how to write applications that use location and push notification, enhanced navigation services, and WP8's deep multimedia capabilities.

You'll need a working knowledge of C#. No experience with Windows Phone or XAML is required.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside

Build your first phone app

Master the Windows Phone 8 interface

How to sell on the Windows Phone Store

Use features like voice recognition and media

About the Authors

Tim Binkley-Jones has worked with XAML since the first releases of WPF and Silverlight. Adam Benoit is an independent developer with more than a dozen apps in the Windows Phone Store. Massimo Perga is an engineer at Microsoft. Michael Sync is a web and WP architect.

Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCING WINDOWS PHONE

A new phone, a new operating system

Creating your first Windows Phone application

PART 2 CORE WINDOWS PHONE

Fast application switching and resume

Scheduled actions

Launching tasks and choosers

Contacts and calendars

Storing data

Working with the camera

Integrating with the Photos and Music + Videos Hubs

Using sensors

Network communication with push notifications

Using the Speech API

PART 3 XAML FOR WINDOWS PHONE

ApplicationBar and context menus

Panorama and pivot controls

Building a media player

Using Maps

Building HTML applications

Releasing and monetizing apps