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Windows Phone 8 in Action
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Windows Phone 8 in Action

by Massimo Perga, Michael Sync, Tim Binkley-Jones
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
17h 58m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 9. Integrating with the Photos and Music + Videos Hubs

This chapter covers

  • Loading and saving pictures in the media library
  • Viewing and sharing photos
  • Recording voice with the microphone

Windows Phone contains several built-in applications, including the Phone Dialer, Email, Camera, Bing search, Photos Hub, and Music + Videos Hub. In chapters 5 and 8 you learned how to use launchers and choosers and the PhotoCamera class to interact with the built-in applications. Most of these interactions consisted of sample applications launching the built-in applications. In this chapter you’re going to learn how to make the Photos Hub and Music + Videos Hub launch your application.

The built-in applications use navigation URLs to launch your ...

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