Download or read book 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps Volume I written by Adam Nathan and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Color INCLUDES COMPLETE CODE AND ASSETS FOR EACH APP IN THIS VOLUME! Got a great idea for an app? There’s a chapter for that! Calling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps is a book series like no other–best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse, and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam’s experience of writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Imagine how long it would take you to develop and test 50 apps and how much you would learn from the experience. Rather than spending all that time starting from scratch, use this book to hit the ground running! Whether you simply make cosmetic changes to apps in this book (for example, creating kid-themed versions), repurpose apps (such as building a mortgage calculator based on Chapter 10’s tip calculator), or build something completely unique, this book can greatly accelerate your development time and help you create high-quality apps. Sell your apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and make this book pay for itself! Volume I contains the first 50 apps and covers the following: Everything you need to know about Silverlight Fully exploiting phone features such as the application bar, hardware/software keyboards, multi-touch, accelerometer, microphone, and more Using rich controls such as pivots, panoramas, and controls in free toolkits, such as date/time pickers, toggle switches, charts, and graphs Building your own custom controls, including popular ones missing from the platform, such as a checkable list box, multi-select picker box, and color picker Broadly applicable pages, such as a photo-cropping page and accelerometer-calibration page How to make your app look and feel like a first-party app Practical tips on a wide range of topics, even acquiring and creating sound effects, using custom fonts, and creating icons

Download or read book Usability Matters written by Matt Lacey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-22 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Usability Matters: Mobile-first UX for developers and other accidental designers gives you practical advice and guidance on how to create attractive, elegant, and useful user interfaces for native and web-based mobile apps. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Just because a mobile app works doesn't mean real people are going to like it. Usability matters! Most mobile developers wind up being part-time designers, and mastering a few core principles of mobile UI can make the difference between app and crap. About the Book Usability Matters is a guide for developers wrestling with the subtle art of mobile design. With each expertly presented example, app developer and designer Matt Lacey provides easy-to-implement techniques that instantly boost your design IQ. Skipping highbrow design theory, he addresses topics like gracefully handling network dropouts and creating intuitive data inputs. Read this book and your apps will look better, your users will be happier, and you might even get some high-fives at the next design review. What's Inside Understanding your users Optimizing input and output Creating fast, responsive experiences Coping with poor network conditions Managing power and resources About the Reader This book is for mobile developers working on native or web-based apps. About the Author Matt Lacey is an independent mobile developer and consultant and a Microsoft MVP. He's built, advised on, and contributed to apps for social networks, film and TV broadcasters, travel companies, banks and financial institutions, sports companies, news organizations, music-streaming services, device manufacturers, and electronics retailers. These apps have an installed base of more than 500,000,000 users and are used every day around the world. Matt previously worked at a broad range of companies, doing many types of development. He has worked at startups, small ISVs, national enterprises, and global consultancies, and written software for servers, desktops, devices, and industrial hardware in more languages than he can remember. He lives in the UK with his wife and two children. Table of Contents Introduction Part 1 - Context Who's using the app? Where and when is the app used? What device is the app running on? Part 2- Input How people interact with the app User-entered data Data not from a user Part 3 - Output Displaying items in the app Non-visible output Part 4 - Responsiveness Understanding the perception of time Making your app start fast Making your app run fast Part 5 - Connectivity Coping with varying network conditions Managing power and resources

Download or read book Windows 8 1 Apps with XAML and C Unleashed written by Adam Nathan and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full color: Learn how to build great Windows Store apps! Figures and code appear as they do in Visual Studio. Windows 8.1 enables you to build stunning applications that integrate with each other, Web services, and Windows itself. You can sell them in the Windows Store, with more options than ever before, for tablets such as Surface, laptops, and traditional desktop PCs! World-renowned Microsoft programming guru Adam Nathan shows you exactly how to write first-class apps for this significant update to Windows. Don’t let the minor name change fool you--Windows 8.1 contains an incredible amount of new developer opportunities compared to Windows 8. Clear, accessible, and intensely practical, this guide teaches through concise code examples, in full color to match their appearance in Visual Studio--the same approach that made Nathan’s WPF Unleashed so popular. Writing with unprecedented depth and insight, Nathan guides you through creating advanced user interfaces with XAML and exploiting key Windows 8.1 features. Whether you’re already comfortable with Microsoft programming or relatively new to it, Windows 8.1 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed will take you to the cutting edge of Windows 8.1 development. Detailed information on how to... Use XAML to represent state-of-the-art user interfaces, even across multiple windows Handle touch, mouse, keyboard, and pen input, including handwriting recognition Use new Windows 8.1 controls for creating hubs, flyouts, better app bars, performing in-app searches, rendering PDFs, and much more Encode, decode, and transcode multimedia content and speech-enable your app Leverage rich XAML vector graphics and animation Interact with built-in functionality such as the Camera app, file picker, the lock screen, new contacts and appointments integration, and more Exploit the Windows 8.1 charms bar Integrate DirectX graphics seamlessly Work with the rich set of available sensors: accelerometer, compass, light sensor, location (with geofencing support), proximity, and more Control devices such as fingerprint readers, image and bar code scanners, magnetic stripe readers, and custom Bluetooth, USB, HID, or Wi-Fi Direct devices

Download or read book Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C Unleashed written by Adam Nathan and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 1261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windows 8 enables you to build stunning applications that integrate with each other, services, and Windows itself like never before. And you can sell them in the Windows Store for tablets such as Surface, laptops, and traditional desktop PCs! Now, world-renowned Microsoft programming guru Adam Nathan shows you exactly how to write first-class apps for this radically new version of Windows. Clear, accessible, and intensely practical, this guide teaches through concise code examples, fully color-coded to match their appearance in Visual Studio--the same approach that made Nathan’s WPF 4 Unleashed so popular. Writing with unprecedented depth and insight, Nathan guides you through creating advanced user interfaces with XAML and exploiting key Windows 8 features such as touch, sensors, charms, and live tiles. Whether you’re already comfortable with Microsoft programming or relatively new to it, Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed will take you to the cutting edge of Windows 8 development. Detailed information on how to... Use XAML to represent state-of-the-art user interfaces Ensure app usability on multiple devices and form factors Handle touch, mouse, pen, and keyboard input Manage the high-performance, low-power Windows 8 app lifecycle Use Windows 8 controls for managing lists, rich text, images, multimedia, and more Encode, decode, and transcode multimedia content Leverage rich XAML vector graphics and animation Make the most of styles and templates Interact with built-in functionality such as the Camera app, file picker, contact picker, the lock screen, and more Exploit the Windows 8 charms bar with contracts and extensions Work with the rich set of available sensors: accelerometer, compass, light sensor, location, proximity, and more

Download or read book Windows Phone 7 for IPhone Developers written by Kevin Hoffman and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2011 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring Your iPhone Apps and Skills to Windows Phone 7-or Build Apps for Both Mobile Platforms at Once If you've been developing for the competitive iPhone marketplace, this book will help you leverage your iOS skills on a fast-growing new platform: Windows Phone 7 (WP7). If you're a .NET programmer, it will help you build advanced WP7 mobile solutions that reflect valuable lessons learned by iOS developers. If you're a mobile development manager, it offers indispensable insights for planning cross-platform projects. Kevin Hoffman guides you through the entire WP7 Software Development Kit (SDK), showing how it resembles Apple's iOS SDK, where it differs, and how to build production-quality WP7 apps that sell. Step by step, you'll master each technology you'll need, including C#, Silverlight, and XAML. Every new concept is introduced along with all the tools and background needed to apply it. Hoffman's practical insights extend into every facet of WP7 development: building user interfaces; hardware and device services; WP7's unique Application Tiles; Push Notifications; the Phone Execution Model, local storage, smart clients, Model-View-View Model (MVVM) design, security, social gaming, testing, debugging, deployment, and more. A pleasure to read and packed with realistic examples, this is the most useful WP7 development book you can find. · Compare Apple's Objective-C and Microsoft's C#: "second cousins twice removed" · Build rich, compelling user interfaces based on Silverlight, XAML, and events · Move from Apple's Xcode to Visual Studio 2010 and from Interface Builder to Expression Blend · Leverage hardware and device services, including the accelerometer, GPS, photos, contacts, e-mail, and SMS · Create dynamic application Tiles to appear on the Start screen · "Push" raw data notifications to running apps · Understand and use the WP7 phone execution model · Efficiently store and retrieve data on WP7 phones · Build "smart clients" that sync locally stored data with web services · Manage growing app complexity through "separation of concerns" and MVVM · Successfully deploy apps to the Marketplace

Download or read book Windows 8 1 Apps with XAML and C Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours written by Adam Nathan and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to build great Windows Store apps! Figures and code appear as they do in Visual Studio. In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Windows 8.1 Apps with XAML and C# in 24 Hours will help you build compelling apps for Windows 8.1 devices of all kinds. Using this book’s straightforward approach, you’ll learn to design and build apps, create flexible user interfaces, handle inputs, integrate controls, and more. Step by step, you’ll discover how to leverage XAML’s visual richness and the immense power of Windows 8.1. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success! Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through today’s most common XAML and C# development tasks. Quizzes at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. Notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them. Learn how to... Create user interfaces that adapt to any device, from tablets to high-def TVs Handle input from touch, mouse, pen, and keyboard Manage the entire Windows 8.1 app lifecycle and all execution states Master powerful XAML controls for text, images, audio, video, and more Integrate vector graphics that scale perfectly to any size Apply rich animations Work with styles, templates, and visual states Exploit the Windows charms within your apps Take full advantage of data binding and contracts Read data from sensors and control external devices Provide dynamic updates via live tiles, notifications, and the lock screen Discover the many ways to monetize your Windows Store apps

Download or read book Mobile Development with C written by Greg Shackles and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the .NET Framework—with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. It’s an ideal marriage of platform-specific development and the "write once, run everywhere" philosophy. By building a series of simple applications, you’ll experience the advantages of using .NET in mobile development and learn how to write complete apps that access the unique features of today’s three most important mobile platforms. Learn the building blocks for building applications on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Discover how the Mono tools interact with iOS and Android Use several techniques and patterns for maximizing non-UI code reuse Determine how much functionality can go into the shared business logic layer Connect to external resources with .NET’s rich networking stack Read and write data using each platform’s filesystem and local database Create apps to explore the platforms’ location and mapping capabilities

Download or read book Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C Unleashed written by Adam Nathan and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Microsoft new Universal Windows Apps tools, it's easy to share code between Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 XAML apps. Now, developers can deliver beautiful end user experiences on all new Windows devices, with radically less cost and development effort. This means they can painlessly extend their conventional PC development work to fast-growing tablet and smartphone markets. In Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed, the world's #1 XAML expert shows Windows developers how to do all this, and more. Just as he did in previous best-sellers like Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed and Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed, Adam Nathan delivers comprehensive coverage, accessible explanations, and plenty of outstanding full-color code samples. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience with modern Windows mobile development, Nathan shows how to build the apps you want to build -- not just the apps Microsoft's SDK makes easy. You'll learn how to unify your Visual Studio code bases for assets ranging from user controls to styles, graphics, and animation. You'll even learn how to unify your monetization, delivering apps and in-app purchases on both Windows and Windows Phone through a single purchase.

Download or read book Beginning Windows Phone App Development written by Henry Lee and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-06-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community. Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App Development, written specifically to help you learn the skills you’ll need to develop rich, functional apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Authors Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov cover the very latest developments in the field—including the extended APIs offered in the new Mango platform update—so you'll have timely, accurate information at your fingertips. Beginning Windows Phone App Development starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and setting up the right development tools, including Visual Studio,Expression Blend, Silverlight SDK, and Windows Phone SDK. It then takes you step-by-step though the development process as you build and deploy a working application, complete with a sophisticated user interface. Finally, you'll receive step-by-step instructions on packaging and selling your applications through the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Download or read book Professional Mobile Application Development written by Jeff McWherter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create applications for all major smartphone platforms Creating applications for the myriad versions and varieties of mobile phone platforms on the market can be daunting to even the most seasoned developer. This authoritative guide is written in such as way that it takes your existing skills and experience and uses that background as a solid foundation for developing applications that cross over between platforms, thereby freeing you from having to learn a new platform from scratch each time. Concise explanations walk you through the tools and patterns for developing for all the mobile platforms while detailed steps walk you through setting up your development environment for each platform. Covers all the major options from native development to web application development Discusses major third party platform development acceleration tools, such as Appcelerator and PhoneGap Zeroes in on topics such as developing applications for Android, IOS, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry Professional Mobile Cross Platform Development shows you how to best exploit the growth in mobile platforms, with a minimum of hassle.

Download or read book WPF 4 5 Unleashed written by Adam Nathan and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 WPF Book--Now Updated for WPF 4.5! Thorough, authoritative coverage, practical examples, clear writing, and full-color presentation make this one of the most widely acclaimed programming books of the last decade. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating modern Windows desktop apps. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, touch, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner that scales from small tablets to large TVs. WPF 4.5 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by WPF guru and Microsoft architect Adam Nathan. Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more Delves into topics that aren’t covered by most books: 3D, speech, audio/video, documents, effects Shows how to create popular UI elements and leverage built-in controls such as the new Office-style Ribbon Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, DirectX, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies Explains how to exploit desktop features, such as Jump Lists and taskbar customizations, and the same toast notifications used by Windows Store apps

Download or read book XAML Unleashed written by Adam Nathan and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In this practical XAML tutorial and reference, Adam Nathan covers every facet of XAML development for desktop Windows, Windows Phone, and the Windows Store.

Download or read book Building Web Cloud and Mobile Solutions with F written by Daniel Mohl and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to build key aspects of web, cloud, and mobile solutions by combining F# with various .NET and open source technologies. With helpful examples, this hands-on book shows you how to tackle concurrency, asynchrony, and other server-side challenges. You’ll quickly learn how to be productive with F#, whether you want to integrate the language into your existing web application or use it to create the next Twitter. If you’re a mid- to senior-level .NET programmer, you’ll discover how this expressive functional-first language helps you write robust, maintainable, and reusable solutions that scale easily and target multiple devices. Use F# with ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, WCF, Windows Azure, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery Mobile, and other tools Build next-generation ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications, using F# to do the heavy lifting on the server Create WCF SOAP and HTTP web services Develop F# web applications and services that run on Windows Azure Build scalable solutions that allow reuse by mobile and web front-ends Use F# with the WebSharper and Pit frameworks to build end-to-end web stacks

Download or read book Windows 8 App Projects XAML and C Edition written by Nico Vermeir and published by Apress. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a leading Windows 8 app developer by using Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition to learn techniques, tools, and ideas to create successful, 5-star apps. Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition shows you the nuts and bolts of the Windows 8 development ecosystem. Then, through a series of example driven chapters, you'll discover how to leverage the platform’s unique features. With each project, you'll be one step closer to building full-featured, responsive, and well designed apps that feel like they’re a part of the operating system. Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition is a great book for developers that already know their way around the .net framework and want to leverage their existing knowledge into building apps for the new and exciting Windows RT platform and the great touch-first tablet and hybrid devices that accompany Windows 8 to market. Learn to build apps for Windows 8 in an example driven way Leverage existing skills onto the Windows 8 platform Get to know and use the new Modern UI style to make your apps stand out

Download or read book Mac at Work written by David Sparks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge the gap between using a Mac at home and at the office Now that you love your Mac at home, you want to use one at the office without missing a beat of productivity or professionalism. This unique guide shows you how. You’ll find best Mac business practices for handling word processing, spreadsheet and presentation creation, task and project management, and graphics. The book also explores topics such as hardware maintenance, how to synchronize with multiple computers, data backup, and communication with Windows networks. Covers the nuts and bolts of using a Mac at work, including synchronizing with multiple computers, backing up data, and communicating with Windows networks Goes beyond simple coverage of Microsoft Office or iWork to show you how to professionally create and interact with typical office systems and documents Provides best software and best practices for creating and using spreadsheets, word processing documents, and slide presentations on a Mac Gives you helpful guidelines and suggestions that can be lacking in an office where the IT department is focused primarily on PCs Find out the best ways to use your Mac in the office and get more productive than ever!

Download or read book Using Windows 8 written by J. Peter Bruzzese and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USING Windows 8 Make Windows® 8 do what you want it to do, and discover everything Windows can do for the first time! Using Windows® 8 is the fastest, easiest way to master Microsoft’s radically new version of Windows. Don’t just read about Windows 8—see it and hear it with step-by-step screencasts and expert audio tips. Show Me video walks through tasks you’ve just got to see Tell Me More audio delivers insights straight from the experts J. Peter Bruzzese, Microsoft MVP, MCT, and MCITP, is the co-founder of ClipTraining.com and an internationally published author with more than a dozen titles to his credit. Nick Saccomanno, a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), develops Microsoft Windows and Office-based content for ClipTraining.com. Wayne Dipchan, MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, and senior Wintel SA/SE, is the owner of AriLex Technologies LLC and is the co-author of Windows Server 2008 How To.

Download or read book Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook written by Jonathan Marbutt and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the recipes you need to start creating apps and making money.