Windows® 8.1 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed

Creating Your First Windows Store App

Let’s be fearless. In this section, I guide you through building your first Windows Store app. Doing a Hello World app would be predictable and boring. Therefore, I suggest that we do something a little more advanced.

I’ll show you how you can create an app which enables you to take pictures. When you click the Take Picture command in the app bar, you can take a picture, and then the picture is displayed in the app (see Figure 1.6, which shows a picture of my dog Rover).

FIGURE 1.6 Your first Windows Store app

Note

The code for the completed app can be found in the Chapter 1 folder with the name App1. All ...