30-to-Launch #2 - Phone Features

Exploring Windows Phone FeaturesChris [email protected] @chriskoenig | http://chriskoenig.net

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Windows Phone

30-to-Launch Program OverviewSession 1

• Overview of Windows Phone• Metro Design• Tour: Expression Blend

• Tour: Visual Studio

• Building, Running and Debugging Your First App

• Online Resources

• Signup for Marketplace

Session 2

• Exploring Windows Phone Capabilities• Live Tiles • Sensors & Camera

• Launchers• Choosers• Search Integration

• Advertisements

Session 3

• Working with Data• App Resources• Isolated Storage

• Database• Networking Stack

• Social Integration

Session 4

• Windows Phone Marketplace• Application submittal process

• How to handle rejection

• Promoting your application

• Help submitting your app to the Marketplace

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Today’s Agenda

Live Tiles Sensors & Camera Launchers & Choosers Advertisements Push Notifications Background Tasks Search Integration

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Live Tiles

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Live Tiles Interactive windows

into your application

Personalize them to be meaningful to your users

Built-in support for data for basic communications

Custom image wizardry for more advanced scenarios

Windows Phone

Live Tiles – Local Tile API Local tile updates (these are *not* push)

Full control of all properties when your app is in the foreground or background

Calorie counter, sticky notes, deep linking MultiTile!

Create/Update/Delete Launches directly to page/experience

Application TileLaunches main app experience

Secondary TileLaunches world news page

Secondary TileLaunches local news page

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Back of tile updates Full control of all properties when your app

is in the foreground or background Content, Title, Background

Flips from front to back at random interval Smart logic to make flips asynchronous

Live Tiles – Local Tile API Continued…

Title

Content

Title

BackgroundContent string is bigger

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Demo

http://github.com/ChrisKoenig/MangoTiles

Working with Live Tiles

Sensors and Cameras and Launchers and Choosers!

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AccelerometerCompass

Not Mandatory in HW(but present if Gyro is)

GyroNot Mandatory in HW

MotionSensorAll the Sensor + MathUse whenever availableAlso works w/o Gyro

Individual APIs available for all Sensors

HARDWARE APIs

Windows Phone Sensors

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Exciting Scenarios EnabledSudok

u Puzzle Solver

Barcode Scanner

CustomCamera

3D Virtual World

AR Overlays

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Augmented Reality Scenarios?

GART Toolkit

http://gart.codeplex.com

Written by my teammate!

Demo

Live demo!

Sensors, Camera, Launchers and Choosers

Advertisements

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Advertising SDK

The Advertising SDK is now part of the Windows Phone SDK You can include a Silverlight Ad control in an application or an XNA

Drawable Ad into a game This is very easy to do

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Microsoft pubCenter

Sign up here so that you can incorporate ads in your games: http://pubcenter.microsoft.com

Find out more about Windows Phone Advertising: http://advertising.microsoft.com/mobile-apps

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Demo

Live demo!

Adding the Ad SDK to a Project

Push Notifications

Windows Phone

Push Notifications

Server-initiated communication Enable key background scenarios Preserve battery life and user

experience Prevent polling for updates

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Push Notification Data Flow

URI to the service:"http://notify.live.com/throttledthirdparty/

01.00/AAFRQHgiiMWNTYrRDXAHQtz-AgrNpzcDAwAAAAQOMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMD

A"

Push enabled applications

Notifications service HTTP POST

the message

Push endpoint is established. URI is created for the endpoint.

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3rd party service

Windows Live Push

Notification service

Send PN Message

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Three Kinds of Notifications

Raw Notification message content is application-specific Delivered directly to app only if it is running

Toast Specific XML schema Content delivered to app if it is running If app is not running, system displays Toast popup using notification message content

Tile Specific XML schema Never delivered to app If user has pinned app tile to Start screen, system updates it using notification

message content

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Toast Notification

App icon and two text fields

Time critical and personally relevant

Users must opt-in via app UI

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Demo

http://github.com/ChrisKoenig/PushNotifications

Push Notification Weather Sample

Multitasking

Windows Phone

Multitasking Themes Fast Application Switching

Ability to resume applications that the user has recently used Apps stay in memory unless memory is needed for other apps Use IsApplicationInstancePreserved in App.Activate event to determine

actions Background Agents

Ability to run your code in the background Audio, Timed or on Idle

Notifications Ability to create alarms and reminders UX and behavior is the same as the phone Alarms

and Calendar items Background Transfer Service

Application can queue up transfers in the background25

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Generic Agent TypesPeriodic Agents Occurrence

Every 30 min Duration

15 seconds Scenarios

Incremental data sync Location Others…

On Idle Agents Occurrence

External power, non-cell network

Duration 10 minutes

Scenarios Data feasting Initial sync Others…

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Background Notification Service

using Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler;

private void AddReminder(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e){ Reminder reminder = new Reminder("CompanyMeeting"); reminder.BeginTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(15); reminder.Content = "Soccer Fields by The Commons"; reminder.Title = "Microsoft Annual Company Product Fair 2009"; reminder.RecurrenceType = RecurrenceInterval.Yearly; reminder.NavigationUri = new Uri("/Reminder.xaml", UriKind.Relative);

ScheduledActionService.Add(reminder);}

AlarmsRemindersusing Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler;

private void AddAlarm(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e){ Alarm alarm = new Alarm("Long Day"); alarm.BeginTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(15); alarm.Content = "It's been a long day. Go to bed."; alarm.Title = "Alarm";

ScheduledActionService.Add(alarm);}

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Background Transfer Service

downloads

My WP Book App

Cheese & WinGreat Mysterie

WP Tips & Tric

CloudBackground

Transfer Service

<2 GB

<20 MB

<~5.0 MB

GET

POST

void DownloadWithBTS(Uri sourceUri, Uri destinationPath){ btr = new BackgroundTransferRequest(sourceUri, destinationUri); btr.TransferStatusChanged += BtsStatusChanged; btr.TransferProgressChanged += BtsProgressChanged; BackgroundTransferService.Add(btr);}

void BtsProgressChanged(object sender, BackgroundTransferEventArgs e){

DrawProgressBar(e.Request.BytesReceived);

}

using Microsoft.Phone.BackgroundTransfer;

void GetCurrentProgress(){ DrawProgressBar(btr.BytesReceived);}

completed

My WPBook App

ISO Store no limit

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Multitasking Cheat Sheet

Job ToolResume quickly from the lock screen Fast App Switching (it’s

free!)Set an alarm or reminder at a precise time

Background Notification

Large file downloads Background Transfer

Event-based toast/tile updates Push Notifications

Location-based services; regular toast/tile updates; data pre-caching; etc.

Periodic Background Agent

Play music in the background Background Audio Player

Synchronize data; SETI@home; etc. Resource-Intensive Agent

Real-time GPS tracking Run under the lock screen

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Demo

http://github.com/chriskoenig/backgroundagentsample

Background Agents

Search Integration

Demo

http://github.com/ChrisKoenig/AppConnect

Using Search Integration via AppConnect

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NuGet

Package management system for .NET Simplifies incorporating 3rd party libraries Developer focused Free, open source

Install NuGet using the Visual Studio ExtensionManager

Use NuGet to add libraries such as the Silverlight Toolkit to your project

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Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone A product of the Microsoft Silverlight team The Silverlight Toolkit adds tons of additional controls ‘out of band’

from the official product control set Includes full open source code, samples, documentation, and design-

time support for controls Refresh every 3 months or so

Bug fixes New controls

http://silverlight.codeplex.com Download from NuGet!

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Homework

Keep cranking on your project

Ping me for help with roadblocks

Explore more of the training videos and

training kits at http://create.msdn.com

Have fun!35

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