MahTweets

Microsoft at aMobile F/OSS WTFD?

Microsoft at aMobile F/OSS WTFD?

• Can publish into WP7 Marketplace– Free as in beer apps ($0)– GPLv2 apps ($0; $0.99 $499.99)– Permissive Licenses

(eg: BSD, Apache, MS-PL)• I am on MahTweets Windows

desktop & WP7 team– mahtweets.codeplex.com– Mahtweetswp7.codeplex.com

Personal

• MahTweets core (scripting)• Implementing Haversine

In a MicrosoftOpen source ecosystem

Thanks to:

Live WP7 FOSS examples

• Wordpress for WP7– GPLv2

• Iron7– Write & Run Ruby on your WP7

Two Flavors of Applications

High performance game framework

Rapid creation of multi-screen 2D and 3D games

Rich content pipeline Mature, robust, widely adopted

technology spanning Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune

Modern XAML/event-driven application UI framework

Rapid creation of visually stunning apps

Metro-themed UI controls

HTML/JavaScript 500,000 developers

spanning Windows and web

Phone Emulator

Samples Documentation

Guides Community

Packaging and Verification Tools

Windows Phone Developer Tools

developer.windowsphone.com

Common Capabilities

Input• Touch• Hardware buttons

Media• Digital media capture & playback• Media library access

Data• Isolated Storage• LINQ (Objects and XML)

.NET

• Superset of Silverlight 3.0• Windows Communication Foundation

• SOAP and REST services

Phone Access• Integrated access to phone UI• Sensors (accelerometer) • Camera, microphone• Picker for contacts and photos

Integrated With Cloud Services• App Deployment & Updates• Notifications• Location• Xbox LIVE

Deployment Process

Develop & Debug

Submit& Validate

Certify & Sign

Windows Phone Application Deployment Service

Marketplace

Marketplace

• US$99 / year• US$0 / year for Dreamspark

students• 5 free submissions for free apps

– US$19.99 / submission after• All submissions are reviewed

– Updates to existing submissions are not

• 70% developer share

MahTweets WP7:• Silverlight based application• Fibre (codeplex)

– Async Library, – MIT. © Jake Ginnivan

• MvvmLight (codeplex) +others– MIT

• Hammock (codeplex)– For REST– MIT

• Autofac (googlecode) +others– Inversion-of-Control (IoC) / DependencyInjection (DI)– MIT, © Nick Blumhardt

• Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit (codeplex)– Ms-PL; Microsoft created

MahTweets WP7:

• Published on codeplex• Hg (mercurial dvcs) access

– Open read, closed commit• Open source

– Same community tempos