Exploring the WP8 SDK@NicoVermeir

Who am I?

@NicoVermeirNico_vermeir@hotmail.com

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Agenda

• What’s new in the Windows Phone 8 SDK• Installing the SDK

• System requirements• Emulator• Templates

• Debugging• Tiles• Lockscreen• Resolutions• Wallet• Lenses• Speech• Location

What’s new?

• LongListSelector• Pivot & panorama removed from SDK, now in ROM• Maps integrated in the SDK

• Microsoft.Phone.Maps• Microsoft.Phone.Maps.Controls• Microsoft.Phone.Maps.Services

• Lockscreen• Wallet• In-app purchases• Proximity• Bluetooth• DataSense

What’s new?

• Simulation Dashboard• Low bandwidth connection or poor signal• An interruption such as reminder• Lock screen

• Launchers• SaveAppointmentTask• MapDownloaderTask• MapsTask• MapsDirectionstask

System RequirementsMEMBERS

System Requirements - SDK

• Windows 8 64-bit• 6.5 GB free disk space• 4 GB RAM• 64-bit CPU

System Requirements - Emulator

• Windows 8 Pro or higher• Second Level Address Translation• EPT (Intel, Extended Page Table)• RVI (AMD, Rapid Virtualization Indexing)• Check your CPU with CoreInfo (http://bit.ly/1ojtfP)

CoreInfo

• CoreInfo.exe -v

Second Level Address Translation

• Used by Hyper-V• Helps translating guest physical addresses to host physical addresses

Emulator

• 4 images, one for each resolution• Complete OS• Powered by Hyper-V• Separate device on network

DemoWindows Phone 8 Emulator

Templates

• Windows Phone App• Windows Phone Databound App• Windows Phone Panorama App• Windows Phone Pivot App• Windows Phone XAML and D3D App• Windows Phone HTML5 App

Debugging

• Debug managed or Native Code• Even when launched from tile or notification

Demodebugging

Tiles

• Three Templates• Flip• Iconic• Cycle

• Three sizes• Secondary tiles

DemoTiles

Lockscreen

• 5 apps on lockscreen, users decides which ones• 30x30 icon• Transparant, white• Takes the count of the tile• Needs to be set in WPAppManifest.xml

DemoLockscreen

Multi-resolution

Multi-resolution

Multi-resolution

• Apps scale automatically• Default resolution is 800x480• Build assets for highest resolution• Resolution and scale can be checked from code

DemoMulti-resolution

Wallet

• Collect coupons, credit cards, memberships, loyalty cards, and more in one place.• Manage the payment instruments that they use in the app and music

store.• Link items in the Wallet to apps on their phone.• Make contactless transactions, using Near-Field Communication

(NFC), in some markets.

Wallet

DemoWallet

Lenses

• Camera app• Launched from the camera• For example: Bing Vision

Lenses

• Set capabilities ID_CAP_ISV_CAMERA and ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO• Register lens extension• When activated, will navigate to /MainPage.xaml?Action=ViewfinderLaunch• Intercept with UriMapper, send to lens page

DemoLenses

Speech

• Text to speech• Speech to text• Voice commands

DemoSpeech

Location

• New api (WP7 version still works as well)• Background tracking• Only one app• GeoLocator keeps the app alive• Drains battery

DemoLocation

Take aways

• SLAT needed for the emulator (coreinfo.exe)• Windows 8 needed for the SDK• Debug when launched from notification or secondary tile• Simulation dashboard• Templates for native code and HTML5• Three tile templates, flip, iconic and cycle• Apps can be on the lockscreen• Apps scale automatically to one of three resolutions or two aspect ratios• Wallet can be used for discounts, memberships and deals• Lenses are camera apps• Speech API provides TTS, STT and voice commands• GeoLocator can track location from the background, only one app can do this

Q&A