Windows Phone 8 Application Development Essentials. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Szostak, Tomasz
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: XAML in Windows Phone; Navigation; PhoneApplicationFrame; PhoneApplicationPage; Containers; Canvas; Border; Grid; Panorama; Pivot; ScrollViewer; StackPanel; List controls; ListBox; LongListSelector; Common controls; ApplicationBar; Button; CheckBox; HyperlinkButton; Image; MediaElement; MultiScaleImage; PasswordBox; Popup; MessageBox; RadioButton; RichTextBox; Slider; TextBlock; TextBox; ToggleButton; WebBrowser; User controls; Third-party controls -- Windows Phone Toolkit. Working with dataBinding expressions; DataContext; Element-to-element data binding; Binding mode; INotifyPropertyChanged; Value converters; List binding; Summary; Chapter 2: App Design: Best Practices; First impression; The golden circle -- ""People don't buy what you do, people buy why you do it""; Why? How? What? -- Planning; Commands and navigation; Flat navigation; Hierarchical navigation; Groups or section tiles; Details; Pivot; Panorama; Application bar; Context menu; Touch in the Windows Phone 8 application; Touch and gestures; Target size guidelines. Branding in the Windows Phone applicationSimplicity is not bad!; Principles for UI/UX; Fast and fluid; Grid system; Windows is one; Controls design best practices; Fonts; Tiles and notifications; Summary; Chapter 3: Building Windows Phone 8 MVVM XAML Application; The project structure; Folder structure; View; Model; ViewModel; Bindings; Model; ViewModel; View; MVVM communication; Wrapping model/property changes; Exposing commands; Direct method calls; Data templates; Value converters; MVVM Light Toolkit; How to get Toolkit; Messaging; Page navigation with MVVM; ViewModel Locator; Unit testing. Creating the application ""SociAgg""Summary; Chapter 4: Integrating with Windows Phone; Isolated storage; The Settings API; The File API; Reading the file; Creating a folder and writing files; Reading and writing serializable classes; Implementing tile notification; Updating the application tile from code; Background agent; Toast notifications; Launchers; Choosers; Summary; Chapter 5: Social API's Connection; Facebook for developers; Using Graph API; Facebook SDK integration; Twitter integration; Summary; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 004.167; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- C#; Smartphones; Smartphones; Smartphones; Smartphones; COMPUTERS -- General; COMPUTERS -- Operating Systems -- General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1306029309; 9781306029308; 1849696764; 9781849696760; 9781849696777; 1849696772
• Related ISBNs: 9781849696760
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