Goal:

Make the learner proficient in usage of windows phone 8 app App development.

Pre-requisite:

XAML for the UI and C# or Visual Basic for the code. If you know C++, you can develop a Direct3D app for Windows Phone 8 in that language to take full advantage of the phone's graphics hardware.

Prepare for:

Windows phone 8 Application Development.

Audiences:

IT professional or B.Tech/MCA students etc.

Duration:

60 hours

Introduction to Visual Studio 2012

• .Net Framework 4.5

Windows Phone 8 Overview

• Windows Phone 8 Platform
• Windows Phone 8 Development Tools
• Downloading and installing the tools
• Windows Phone 8 SDK overview
• Running and Debugging the App

Designing WP8 Application:

• Windows Design Language
• Introduction to XAML Layout
• Styles and Themes
• Design Time Data
• Data Binding
• Lists and the LongListSelector

Developing WP8 application:

• Page Navigation
• Application Bar
• Handling Page Orientation Changes
• Handling Different Screen Resolutions
• Localization
• Windows Phone Toolkit
• Page Transitions

Files and storage:

• WP7.1IsolatedStorage and IsolatedStorageSettings APIs
• Local Storage and Isolated Storage
• Windows Storage (Windows Phone Runtime) programming
• Special Folders
• Shared/Media
• Shared/ShellContent
• Shared/Transfers
• Exploring the local folder with ISET Using Removable SD cards Module Agenda

WP 8 Application lifecycle

• Launching and Closing
• Deactivating and Activating
• Dormant and Tombstoned applications
• Simulation Dashboard

Background Agents

• Windows Phone task management
• Multi-tasking with background agents
• Creating tasks in Visual Studio
• File transfer tasks
• Background notifications

Tiles and lock screen

• Tiles in Windows Phone 8
• Local Tiles API
• Updating Tiles from ShellTileSchedule
• Updating Tiles from Background Agents
• Lock screen notifications for Windows Phone
• Lock screen background for Windows Phone

Push notifications:

• Push Notifications
• Server-initiated Communication
• Push Notifications Infrastructure
• Three Kinds of Notifications : Raw, Toast and Tile
• Push Response Headers

Using phone resource:

• Using the Contacts and Calendars in Windows Phone
• Using the Contacts and Calendars in Windows Phone
• Launchers and Choosers
• The Windows Phone Camera
• Taking still images
• Manipulating the video stream
• The Windows Phone Microphone
• The Windows Phone Sensors
• The Motion sensor
• Video Content

App to App Communication:

• Auto-Launching with File and Protocol Associations
• Launching Apps to Handle Particular File Types
• Launching one App from Another

Network communication:

• Networking for Windows Phone
• WebClient
• HttpWebRequest
• Sockets
• Web Services and OData
• Simulation Dashboard
• Data Compression

NFC and Bluetooth:

• Local Communication with Windows Phone
• Bluetooth Overview
• Using Bluetooth from an application
• Near Field Communications (NFC)
• Using NFC from an application

Using speech:

• Speech on Windows Phone 8
• Speech synthesis
• Controlling applications using speech
• Voice command definition files
• Building conversations
• Selecting application entry points
• Simple speech input
• Speech input and grammars
• Using Grammar Lists

Location and maps

• Introducing the new Location API and the new Maps Controls
• Windows Phone Runtime Location API
• How to Get the Phone's Current Location
• How to Continuously Track the Phone's Location
• How to Run Location-Tracking Apps in the Background
• Getting Started with the New Map Control
• Specifying Map Center and Zoom
• Animating Map Display Using Map Views

In-App Purchase

• In App Purchases
• Adding products to your application
• The purchase lifecycle
• The Application Programmer Interface

The Windows Phone Store

• Performance Analysis
• Creating an Application
• Distributing an Application
• The Windows Phone Store

Enterprise Applications

• Mobile Enterprise Concepts
• Building mobile middleware with SQL Server 2012 + IIS
• Securely publishing enterprise data out to the Internet
• Consuming and work with data on Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 8 in the Enterprise

Building for Wp8 and Win8

• Building for Windows Devices
• Architecture
• Minimizing Development
• Compatibility with Windows Phone 7.x

Mobile Web

• Discover important mobile web facts
• Learn mobile web best practices
• Leverage new HTML5 capabilities to build enterprise web apps
• By 2015, Gartner predicts that 80% of all mobile applications developed will be hybrid or mobile web-oriented