Windows Phone 7 for developers

 

This Saturday I had a presentation at MobileCamp Ljubljana about upcoming Windows Phone 7. Since I like minimalistic presentations let me add a few words besides slides:

As you can see in a lot of videos around web, UI is structured a little differently as we are used to (eg. iPhone, Android, Maemo, Sybian, …). On home screen (or start screen) are tiles, which are “active” – they are animating and shows a lot of information as it can be best seen on videos. Microsft also invented something called hubs – actually these are apps, which are scrollable left and right.
I did a very simple demo at my lecture, you can download it here. It’s very basic app, which uses WiFi-tocke.si service and shows a list of spots in my area. There is no advanced code, just basic list and one subpage for showing details of each hotspot. Try it out and if you have any questions, leave a comment.

And just to refresh – for development you need a free developer tools and you can grab them here: http://developer.windowsphone.com/. If you are interested in more step-by-step guide, check out first and second lecture from MIX10 conference.

Ok, now let me just write a few words how to distribute your apps. As you probably know, you will have to use Marketplace (similar to iPhone AppStore). There are also a lot of countries, where you cannot apply for developer account due to restrictions of payments. Check my slides for full map. A lot is yet unknown, since Microsoft is promising more details about Marketplace in May. Check out this video of a session from MIX10 for more details.

I’ll also publish video of my lecture from MobileCamp Ljubljana when it will be online. Stay tuned :) Until than you can check what folks are tweeting about #mobilecamplj.

UPDATE: I just found out, that videos are finally online, so here’s mine lecture. Video is pretty poor quality, but I think you’ll get the point.

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author: Aleš Rosina | Comments: 1 | Tags: wp7, windows-phone