Book description
Windows Phone 8 in Action teaches you how to design, build, and sell WP8 apps. In it, you'll learn to use the WP Runtime and .NET APIs to control key features like the accelerometer, camera, GPS, and microphone. This example-driven book also shows you how to write applications that use location and push notification, enhanced navigation services, and WP8's deep multimedia capabilities.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Introducing Windows Phone
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Part 2. Core Windows Phone
- Chapter 3. Fast application switching and resume
- Chapter 4. Scheduled actions
- Chapter 5. Launching tasks and choosers
- Chapter 6. Contacts and calendars
- Chapter 7. Storing data
- Chapter 8. Working with the camera
- Chapter 9. Integrating with the Photos and Music + Videos Hubs
- Chapter 10. Using sensors
- Chapter 11. Network communication with push notifications
- Chapter 12. Using the Speech API
- Part 3. XAML for Windows Phone
- Appendix A. XAML, the Extensible Application Markup Language
- Appendix B. Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Windows Phone 8 in Action
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617291371
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