Hour 22. Being a Good Mobile Citizen

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Theming

Preserving application state

Implementing an About page

Well-written mobile applications respect the system they run in and the users interacting with them. This includes properly handling operating system events, utilizing the Metro user-interface styling appropriately, providing reasonable and appropriate user feedback, and providing data security and integrity.

Theming

One of the main characteristics of Windows Phone is a standard customizable user-interface theme. That might seem contradictory, but Windows Phone allows the user to choose a combination of background and accent colors through the theme settings screen, shown in Figure 22.1.

Figure 22.1 Theme ...

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