Windows 8 mobile app development

Windows 8 Mobile Apps Development

Guided BY:Mr. Esan Panchal

&Mr. Rinkesh Patel

Thakkar Tirth (126820307036)

Introduction to WINDOWS 8

APP DEVELOPMENT

More than 100 million

Windows 8 licenses

have been sold to date.

100 million licenses

170,000 apps

The Windows Phone Store

features more than 170,000

apps and games.

250 million downloads

The Windows Store has

seen 250 million app

downloads from users.

2 billion downloads

The Windows Phone Store has

seen 2 billion downloads of

apps and games.

You Already Have

iOS & Android

App Developed & Live?

But Still Wonder If You Need

?

Windows 8 is the ONLY

platform where you can develop ONE app for

ALL devices

History of Windows 8• On June 20, 2012, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8

Phone(codenamed Apollo).

• A second generation of the Windows Phone operating system for release later in 2012.

• Windows Phone 8 replaces its previously Windows CE-based architecture with one based on the Windows NT kernel (with many components shared with Windows 8), allowing developers to easily port applications between the two platforms.

Shared Windows Core

Shared Core means• OS components such as the kernel, networking,

graphics support, file system and multimedia are

the same on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone

8

• Hardware manufacturers work with the same driver

model on both platforms

Shared Windows Core (cntd...)

It doesn’t mean

• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

developers work to exactly the same

APIs (though you will see more

commonly as new features are

introduced to both platforms in the

future)

Windows 8 Devices Worldwide

Windows Phone Devices Worldwide

Platform Revenues

Compare Revenue Sharing

• Up to 80% revenue sharing

when you reach $25,000 USD

or more in revenue

• Greater transparency and

insight into the store

economics

• Support for global currencies

to make app purchasing

easier

Windows

Store

Apple

AppStore

Google

PlayStore

Up to

80% Revenue Sharing

Up to

70% Revenue Sharing

Up to

70% Revenue Sharing

Common native API

Common nativeAPI

Description

DirectX For Multimedia

XAudio2 Audio API

MediaEngine Video Playback

STL Standard Templete Library

CRT C Runtime Library

WinSock Windows Sockets

Some Key Differences

• Screen Size

• Windows Phone

• 800x480, 1280x720, 1280x768Portrait, Landscape

• Windows

• 1024x768 Portrait, Landscape, Snapped

Some Key Differences

Controls

• Windows Phone

• Panorama, Pivot, ListPickerLongListSelector

• Windows

• GridView, ListView, Semantic Zoom, FlipView

Similar XAML UI Controls

You create your UI on both platforms using XAML. Your app will consist of one or more pages, and each page contains a UI createdby and customized by UI controls. The set

of controls available on Windows Phone 8 is available in the System.Windows.Controlsnamespace.

The set of controls used on Windows 8 is in the Windows.UI.Xaml.Controlsnamespace. Although these are different namespaces and the types are different, there’s a lot of similarity in the controls that are supported.

Most of the controls are named the same and will be familiar to you coming from either platform. This supports design reuse you can design your app for WindowsPhone 8 and Windows 8 with the same UI building blocks in mind.

Windows Phone 8 Programming API

Windows Phone 8 supports •Managed app dev using the

WP7.1, WP8.0 .NET and

Windows Phone Runtime APIs

•Native app dev using WinPRT

and Win32

•Games dev using the WP7.1

XNA framework

•Games dev using Direct3D or

DirectX

.NET API for Windows Phone

The .NET API for Windows Phone is the primary managed API •Includes all the types and APIs from Windows Phone OS 7.1

•Contains classes and types from the System and Microsoft.Phone namespaces

There have been new classes added for Windows Phone 8.0, for example •Microsoft.Phone.Wallet

•Microsoft.Phone.Tasks.ShareMediaTask

•Microsoft.Phone.Tasks.MapsTask

•Microsoft.Phone.Storage.ExternalStorage

•Microsoft.Phone.Networking.Voip

•Many more…!

.NET API for Windows

Phone

Windows Phone

RunTime

Win32 & COM

Managed Managed &

Native

Native

Windows Phone Runtime API

.NET API for Windows

Phone

Windows Phone

RunTime

Win32 & COM

Managed Managed &

Native

Native

Windows Phone Runtime is a subset of the full WinRT, plus some phone-specific additions •Windows (Phone) Runtime is implemented in C++ and projected into C#, VB.NET, and C++

•HTML5/JavaScript projection not available on Windows Phone 8

Phone-specific additions to Windows Phone Runtime include •Speech synthesis and recognition

•Windows.Phone.PersonalInformation

•LockScreen and LockScreenManager

•More…

Full WinRT (around 11,000 members)

Subset adopted for Windows Phone Runtime (around 2,800 members)

New for Windows Phone Runtime (around 600 members)

Win32 & COM API for Windows Phone

In addition to .NET and Windows Phone Runtime, you have access to some Win32 APIs •Winsock for low-level networking

•Camera APIs for native code apps

•COM APIs such as CoInitializeEx, CoTaskMemAlloc, CoTaskMemFree,

CreateFile2,

ReadFile, WriteFile, HeapAlloc, CreateMutexExW, WaitForSingleObjectW,…many

others…

.NET API for Windows

Phone

Windows Phone

RunTime

Win32 & COM

Managed Managed &

Native

Native

Getting Started

Development PC Requirement

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 8 64-bit(x64) client versions

Language Need Visual Studio , C#,

JavaScript

Hardware 8 GB free disk spaceIntel i-3 Processor4GB of RAM64-bit motherboard

Windows Phone Emulator

Windows 8 Pro or Higher (for Hyper - V) and Second level Address Translation(SLAT)

Overview of New

Features for Developers

in Windows Phone 8.0

Features of Windows 8 Mobile

Homescreen

• The first thing you notice on Windows Phone 8 is its pure interface. All these additional icons, buttons and chunks of text are gone and only the essential is left. In fact, the interface is so simplified that even the battery, signal and WiFiindicators are gone, and only appear if you press the top of the screen. When you compare it to Android, you can’t help but realize the latter has a bit too much information on the homescreen and that some of it could be hidden.

Features of Windows 8 MobileMicrosoft Office

• Most Android phones offer basic support for Microsoft Office documents out of the box, but this is usually limited to viewing files with no editing possibilities. When the latter exists, users are often invited to download a full version of the software on the Play Store, implying they would have to buy an application in order to create and edit Microsoft Office documents. Of course, Google’s very own Drive is a decent alternative to Microsoft Office, but the application quickly becomes useless when you need it the most: in offline situations. Another major restriction with Google Drive is that you have to use Google’s storage service to save your documents, and cannot save them locally or even edit an attachment you might have received.

Advantages of Windows 8 Mobile

Advantages of windows 8

• Windows phone 8 Devices overcome Main Disadvantages of Windows Phone 7.5

• Windows Phone 8 Devices Supports Micro SD Card by which you can directly connect your Memory Card to system and transfer Music and Videos.

• The Windows 8 Devices has better Video Code When Compared With Windows 7.5

• XBOX Games add better Gaming Experience.

• Social Network Integration is good.

Advantages of windows 8

• Windows 8 Now Supports Multi Core Processors.

• Windows 8 has new Interface with Small Tiles.

• The Windows 8 Devices can be connected to System by Mass Storage Option where as the Windows 7.5 Devices are connected to System by Zune Support Only.

• Windows 8 Devices Supports HD Displays.

• Apps Available for Windows 8 Devices are better when compared with Windows 7.5 Devices

Advantages of windows 8

• Microsoft Office Support is very nice and Document Reading and Editing is Really Very Good.

• Has Inbuilt Bar Code Scanner

• Windows 8 Devices Ranks 3rd position in the Mobile Market.

• The Main Advantage is The Devices never Struck and no lagging.

Disadvantages of Windows 8 Mobile

Disadvantages of Windows 8

• Above we have discussed many Advantages of Windows Phone 8 Devices. Still Windows 8 Devices has some Disadvantages for the General use.

• The Devices Available in the Market are Still Using Dual Core Processors Where as Quad Core, OctaCore Processors are Available in the Market.

• The Higher End Devices are only having of 1 GB Ram and 2 GB version Android Devices are Available in the Market.

Disadvantages of Windows 8

• The Main Disadvantage is App Catalogue it fails to competite with Android and iOS.

• The Most Games(Temple Run and Many More ) Requires of 1 GB Ram but 1GB Ram is available for only Higher End Devices and the lower End Devices has only 512Mb Ram Support.

• Windows Mainly fails in App Transformation from Android and iOS.

Disadvantages of Windows 8

• The Device Supports limited Video Codec and only Plays video files like .3gp, .avi and .mp4 and cannot play any other formats like .mkv and many more.

• The NFC and Bluetooth is not yet perfect for the Sharing of our Content you can share Photos/Images by Blue tooth but you cannot share Videos.

Disadvantages of Windows 8

• The Other Major thing we have to Consider is Video Player there is no Single Video Player App in the Windows Phone Market. We have to play/Access Video Files in the Music+Videos in your Device.

• Folder View of Videos is also Not possible and All the Video Files are given as list and you may not Delete All the Videos at a Time and have to select each one by one and Delete them.

Missing features added in Windows Phone 8.1

Task Manager:

• There is no way to kill an app which crashed or is just not responding anymore. Even on Windows Phone 8 apps can crash. You can wait till Windows Phone 8 removes the app from memory automatically or you restart your phone. Both ways are rather annoying. I want Microsoft to add the "kill"-option in the overview screen of all apps which are currently open (you get that screen by pressing the back button for some seconds) with the possibility to press long on the crashed app and a context menu appears with the desired

Missing features added in Windows Phone 8.1

File Manager:• So far Microsoft does not give access to the File System of your

Windows Phone 8. There are even no apps to manage your files. Microsoft is going here the Apple-Way (get simplicity with restrictions) to prevent users form killing the system by playing around with the File System. But in the case you are running out of free memory on your phone this can be rather annoying. If you want to delete files then you always have to open the corresponding app (e.g. the Photo App to delete Photos or the PDF Reader to delete an PDF). Of course this apps are not specialized on managing files: So you can´t perform a proper file search or it´s hard to identify big files and memory wasters. I would like to see an central app where I can manage all my files (mostly that are just Photos, Music, Videos, Documents). This can be still simple and does not need full File System access.

Languages supported in Windows 8

• Windows 8 support 50 languages

and 26 are below

Any question

?