Building a Note-Taking App for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store

Building an app for one platform just isn’t good enough anymore. Android, Windows, and iOS support are all required for a successful product—but learning the different environments is difficult. This course is one of a matched set spanning the three platforms and will demonstrate their similarities and differences. Start with the product most familiar to you, then watch the parallel courses to understand how to bridge your knowledge.
Like its companions, it will take you through building a complete mobile app from scratch; but this installment uses C#/XAML with the Windows Phone SDK and Windows Store SDK to get the job done. Author Michael Lehman explains the app’s class structure, model, and page flows, and then shows you how to build the data model from scratch, handle orientation and size changes, create the “code behind” the markup, implement persistence, and test your app on a device emulator.
These three related courses use the same assets to develop the same app. (See Building a Note-Taking App for iOS and Building a Note-Taking App for Android for more information.) Compare and contrast the different steps and discover the similarities and differences!

Topics include:

• Previewing the sample note-taking app
• Understanding the app structure
• Reviewing concepts unique to Windows Phone and Windows Store apps
• Creating the data model
• Exploring public properties and class methods
• Building the XAML
• Enhancing the data model
• Building the code behind
• Sharing asset with Android and iOS

Table of content

• Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Using the challenges
  • Prerequisites and related courses
• Cross-Platform Development
  • Demoing the note-taking app
  • Issues in cross-platform development
  • Managing source control
• Understanding Windows Phone and Windows Store Design Patterns
  • Understanding the app class structure
  • Understanding the app model used in these project courses
  • Understanding the app page flow used in these project courses
  • Understanding the code behind and why it is specific to this course
• Understanding Windows Phone Specifics
  • Concepts unique for Windows Phone
  • Android developers beware
  • iOS developers beware
• Understanding Windows Store Specifics
  • Unique concepts for Windows Store apps
  • Android developers beware
  • iPhone developers beware
• Creating the Data Model
  • Understanding the data model
  • Exploring the public properties
  • Exploring the class methods
  • Challenge: Building the data model from scratch
  • Solution: Building the data model from scratch
• Creating Screen Markup for Windows Phone
  • Building the XAML for Windows Phone
  • Handling orientation changes
  • Emulators and testing on a device
  • Challenge: Building the Windows Phone UX
  • Solution: Building the Windows Phone UX
• Creating Screen Markup for Windows Store
  • Building the XAML for the Windows Store app
  • Exploring the split-app template
  • Exploring the XAML for PlainOlNotes
  • Handling orientation and size changes
  • Challenge: Building the Windows Store UX, part one
  • Solution: Building the Windows Store UX, part one
  • Challenge: Building the Windows Store UX, part two
  • Solution: Building the Windows Store UX, part two
• Creating the Code Behind
  • Creating the code behind the class
  • Enhancing the data model
  • Implementing persistence
  • Exploring the code behind for Windows Phone
  • Exploring the code behind for Windows Store
  • Challenge: Building the code behind for the Windows Phone app
  • Solution: Building the code behind for the Windows Phone app
  • Challenge: Building the code behind for the Windows Store app
  • Solution: Building the code behind for the Windows Store app
• Creating Assets
  • Sharing assets between iOS, Android, and Windows
• Conclusion
  • Next steps

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